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Peer reviewedELT Journal, 1984
Discusses four problems common to English as a second language students: (1) the use of "they" as a sex-neutral, third person singular pronoun; (2) the use of "I wish"; (3) how stress affects meaning; and (4)word pairs ending in "ate," in which the noun and verb have different pronunciations. (EKN)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
