Good English and Bad

Given the anomalies in the English language, the author is suggesting that the standards of the english language is complicated in its simplicity.The simplicity of course by using the example that you have to play basketball by using the rules of football. There are many rules in the english language and many words like verbs that we have to be mindful of using in sentences which I never understood as a lot of it are infinitive. The standard usage of the english language is very complexed as the authour has mentioned that the language is so complex because “…that its rules and terminology are based on Latin- a language with which is has precious little in common.” I feel that it is quite overwhelming to hear that there is a 200 page book explaining the english present tense and how to use if correctly and I feel now that even though my grammar I’d say is becoming fairly stable deriving from a language where the grammar is in a different format, I feel very unconfident about my english as there is still so much to learn about it. In 1792, the author explained how the English language was a period of English absurdities as many of them were “climbing on top [or rather at] each other” which was where many expressions started to become dominant in the English language. Lastly, the author explains that the undoubted issues of the English language is that it is a democratic language which means that the English language changes over time which is natural for it to do so.