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Originally Posted by frostschutz
In school I failed in every single exam that expected me to know grammar e.g. "put this in past perfect progressive" - unsolvable problem if you don't know what past perfect progressive is supposed to be.
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Ah, thank you for that! That's been my problem, too, with the grammar of other languages; I simply don't know what all those tense names refer to and apparently I have a mental block regarding learning them. My brain sort of stops after past, present and future.