Examples of grammatical structures

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Your roommate reads an article in the New York Times about an indigenous language in Australia going extinct. She says "What's the big deal? You said that all languages can express everything, just like English, so they're all basically like English." To give some respect for linguistic differences, give your roomie two examples of grammatical structures in other languages that really are different from English, contrasting each with how we show the same meaning in English.

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