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I`ve learned that value`s, opinions, and appreciations change by age. I`ve learned that being right is no victory at all, and being kind isn`t either. The most important is to be able to let the other one understand...
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I have learned that being kind 9 times out of 10 gets abused, so it better just to be fair.
If you want security in this life, you have to make it for yourself.
You have to find happiness within yourself and cannot expect others to do it for you.
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I've learned that eating new galaxy roasted and caramalised hazlenut chocolate bars will not make me kind or nice...just fat! and maybe sick!
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Actually, if we are going to split hairs Mr Korvin...
These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity.
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quote:Originally posted by Korvin's: I've learned that it is LEARNT. Bad gurl smuckie
Then you LEARNT wrong
English Grammar lesson:- The context that Smuckers used is the present perfect where there is an action in the past that has a result now. This requires the use of Have + the past participle of the verb which takes an ed ending.... ie. I have learn(ed.)
When you use the simple past ie for an action that has finished it would be:-
I learnt. E.g I learnt to swim last summer.
This is quite a hard concept for an arabic speaker as you don't have it in arabic grammar.
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quote:Originally posted by Wanderer: Actually, if we are going to split hairs Mr Korvin...
These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Learnt is more common in British English, and learned in American English. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity.
i am so glad i learnt english as my first language because it makes no sense at all
YEAH so THERE korv... I say it perfectly fine for my nationality...that's how I "learned" it.
BTW Penny, I am a native English speaker and you even had me thinking 'huh??', or is it 'eah?', I forget. Posts: 13440 | Registered: Feb 2006
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This often crops up as a difference between American English and UK English. I have learnt is often used in UK English but both are just fine, as far as I'm concerned.
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Its no surprise that young children learn this past tense, its so cute when they say...
I drinked it mummy or it swimmed in the sea or it runned away from me
there we are saying 'no sweetheart, it 'ran', not runned' poor little blighters, how are they supposed to know ye olde english scholars went and changed the rules for some words!!! Posts: 644 | Registered: Jul 2007
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...must be more confusing for American children, wondering why Shakespeare added all those pesky u's and q's!
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I love when kids add the ES for things that don't need it, like clothes, if it's more than one they say 'I need to buy some new clothes-ES'!
SWYS, Shakespeare is easy for us, we're heard it all of our lives (in some form) so it isn't foreign to our ears any more than British English is. Somehow, we're all kind of connected. (edit: Mom raised us attending plays and musicals, at least to my brother and I it came naturally. I just realized it might not have been the same for everyone if they didn't have that early exposure.)
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Smuckers, my remark was a little tongue in cheek. Americans certainly have a shared literary heritage and an appreciation of the arts.
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quote:Originally posted by SayWhatYouSee: Smuckers, my remark was a little tongue in cheek. Americans certainly have a shared literary heritage and an appreciation of the arts.
Don't worry dear SWYS, I understood you. Now the one we DON'T understand is that Ozzy Osbourne guy over there. Posts: 13440 | Registered: Feb 2006
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