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> English grammar has some quite unnecessarily complex rules (imperfect perfect tense says hi!) remembering from when I use to cram from this book called Wren a

> English grammar has some quite unnecessarily complex rules (imperfect perfect tense says hi!) remembering from when I use to cram from this book called Wren and Martin back in the day. English grammar is fairly simple as these things go. If you want to see some serious linguistic complexity, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_conjugation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_conjugation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar or even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_verbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_verbs

Asraelite 3y ago
Not true at all. There is a general tendency for languages to trade grammatical complexity in their morphology for complexity in their syntax. English is morphologically simple, but syntactically very complex. Syntactic complexity isn't as easy to notice at first glance as morphology, especially if you're a native speaker. This leads to the common misconception that analytic languages like English are necessarily simpler overall.