A Comprehensive Guide to English Grammar and its Application to Fictional Writing

[Ibrahim]

Yeah dude that like, totally makes me, like pull out my hair 'n' stuff.
In regards to the comments I made on people I live around, I have no regrets. There was one person who, and I counted this, said the word "like" 45 times in the period of about a minute and a half.

On a more serious note, what do you think so far, should this idea of mine be pursued?

It should. i find this to be a simple way of teaching proper english to many over here, who often don't speak english natively. I too also find the overuse of "like" disturbing, as if it is supposed to be used everywhere or something. so yes, we should have a guide like this. perhaps I can learn from this too, as I'm famous for writing badly constructed papers in school

on a similar note, maybe we can go to the appropriate forum, and post instructions on how to learn many a language, can't we?

[SwissBarbar]

Thank you, Owen Glyndwr. Since english is not my first language (actually it's not even among the four official languages spoken in my country), a guide like this could come in very useful.

[V.T. Marvin]

Seconded. This is very helpful for me, because I have learned English more intutitively by extensive reading rather than by having a proper formal training. Therefore my English is almost totally passive. I can read fluently just about anything, but when I am to write or speak myself, I am in a trouble.

It is of course completely my fault, because at the High school I did not care to learn and mostly slept during my English lessons only to find out that ALL my literature at the College is in English.

Thank you once more and keep up! I am looking forward to an advanced course!

[Xehh II]

Looks like I shouldn't start an AAR anytime soon, I suck at grammar. At least I think so, maybe I should start one just to see how many errors you find, that would be fun.
I failed english so bad maybe only because I found it boring, food tech, history, geography and accounting were all I needed but only doing subjects that you like is frowned upon. Stupid schools.

[Leviathan DarklyCute]

I'm sorry. I english speak not so well.

[Tartaros]

ok, that´s a very good intension!
it really makes me sick that i can´t speak english very well. i "learned" english long time ago in school... but no practise - no professionalism