David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >Certainly German and Russian (the two foreign languages I've >studied at all seriously) have more grammar than English does, it >takes a little getting used to. > > At least as far as German goes, I would flatly disagree with you; I am certain that English has more grammatical rules to master. The fact that English is positional & has lost virtually all of its inflections doesn't mean that it has less in the way of grammar. Snarkhunter