Re: grammar tricks--Noguchi's book

[Margaret Clark <clark@uhdux2.dt.uh.edu>]

> > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, ilene rubenstein wrote:

> Rei could probably explain better than i, but the probably arises from 
> the linguistic structures of many L1 to L2 speakers.  The tag questions 
> not only are difficult for these students to perceive, but also they 
> manage to construct them in hybrid ways that dilute the principles behind 
> the tags.  

God, do I remember drilling those bloody tag questions in ESL classes. I 
gotcha.

Margaret
clark@dt.uh.edu