User blog comment:Akvii/Natlang vs. Conlang Discussion/@comment-1883086-20100428201209

English... does have grammar. Actually, English's use of auxilliary verbs to express modality (such as might, can, should, etc) are relatively a Germanic feature. Plus, if you look at its linguistic history, English has gone through vowel changes that can only be considered Germanic. I think most just overlook the fact that English is Germanic because of the popularity of Romantic languages.

And there is grammar in English. There's actually a lot. You have to look at it from a non-European sort of way. English depends a lot on word order, rather than morphology.

How would one know where to place adverbs, adjectives, or subject pronouns? What about pronoun declensions? They still exist; "I" is the subjective, or nominative, while "me" is objective, or a merging of the dative and the accusative. And then there's pluralization, which in itself seems to be easy (add a simple -s, or -es, right?), but isn't when you look at words such as mouse/mice, goose/geese, etc.

Nouns aren't conjugated... neither in English or French. French inflects nouns for grammatical gender, and number, while English does for number and possession; AND the usage of a definite article is also used in French... and Spanish...

I advise you to go to your local library or bookstore and check out a few books on English grammar. Yes, perhaps the morphology is nothing like Czech, Polish or Icelandic, but what English lacks in morphology, it makes it up in syntax, word order, irregularities, etc.

I'm not trying to sound condescending or anything, but before you claim English has no grammar, please do your research.