During the past 12 years, Jose Carillo’s English Forum has shared and analyzed over 400 little-known grammar peculiarities—perhaps “eccentric” better describes them—in its “Getting to Know English” board. Knowing thatmost of them will make you more proficient and confident in your English, the Forum presents four of the most unexpected grammar trippers of them all to get you started:
1. The difference between “even though” and “even if” (January 28, 2024): Some writers—even professionals—tend to use them
interchangeably; they are not. Click this link to read the post:
How the conjunctions “even though” and “even if” differ 
2. Conveying the idea of possession using the double genitive (November 7, 2019: An English teacher in Iran was baffled by the seemingly superfluous way of conveying the idea of possession known as the double genitive. Click this link to read the post:
The perplexing workings of the double possessive 
3. A major attribute of good writing is consistency of point of view (September 30, 2018). People obviously find it much easier to understand a piece of writing that’s told from only one voice and one perspective. Click this link to read the post:
The need for consistency in point of view 
4. Inverted sentences as transitional devices (September 6, 2018). They depart from the normal sentence pattern, putting the verb or its complement wherever it can do its work best. Click this iink to read the post:
Even more pragmatic uses of sentence inversion 
