A Feature Of English That

Vocabulary Is A Matter Of Word-building As Well As Word-using.

English Has Been This Vacuum Cleaner Of A Language, Because Of Its History Meeting Up With The Romans And Then The Danes, The Vikings And Then The French And Then The Renaissance With All The Latin And Greek And Hebrew In The Background.

Grammar Is What Gives Sense To Language .... Sentences Make Words Yield Up Their Meaning. Sentences Actively Create Sense In Language. And The Business Of The Study Of Sentences Is Grammar.

Word Books Traditionally Focus On Unusual And Quirky Items. They Tend To Ignore The Words That Provide The Skeleton Of The Language, Without Which It Would Fall Apart, Such As 'and' And 'what,' Or Words That Provide Structure To Our Conversation, Such As 'hello.

Although Many Texters Enjoy Breaking Linguistic Rules, They Also Know They Need To Be Understood.