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Old 06-27-2013, 03:12 AM   #20
Ansileran
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We don't learn much English grammar at school, even as a foreign language. At least that's how it feels to me, but I might be biaised since I had to learn French, Latin, German, ancient Greek (do I need upper case for "ancient" here)... and Russian ^^

Of course, my English grammar still isn't perfect. I know I make many mistakes a native speaker probably wouldn't make (selecting the wrong past tense is a common one for me). In the sentence you gave, I would have said "The big ugly old French woman". It's funny because I wouldn't have made the same mistake if it had been "little" instead of "big". Can't say why, except that it would have felt wrong...
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