Bleh.

[sess_satan]

I cannot stand revising grammar any more. The whole experience of studying English language has been crushing, both literally and figuratively.
I decided to vent my anger by creating a blog for open letters (because I love writing open letters, especially to inanimate objects!) and my first ones were to various tenses and word classes...

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[captanonymus]

Oh, the sighs of recognition when reading the letters...As they say in the old country, been there, done that, got the hell out after they gave me my degree. I still have, of course, an unlimited amount of love and affection for the English language but sometimes, just sometimes, Grammar should take a long running jump of a very high building...

Also, I missed 'periphrastic do' in your list...:-) Have fun with *that* one... :-)

[sess_satan]

Jesus, haven't even heard of that! I'm going to let Wikipedia, o trusty companion, give me a headstart...
Yeah, English language would be immense if it wasn't for grammar. I'm all for categorising, but honestly, aren't they taking it a little too far? It's like calling a type of bug something completely different just because it has an extra spot or something. We humans love to make things difficult for ourselves...
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