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/^t/We should also take a closer look at English from the point of view of linguists. Here we will apply the most common way of exploring the language which is based on comparison with a number of other languages. Shortening the whole procedure we will base on obvious facts which are known even to ordinary people with a little linguistic experience. It is widely known that most European languages in their grammars have genders, complicated inflection of various parts of speech connected with it, various types of declination and different word order rules. When we compare those factors with their equivalents in English it is clearly noticeable that in English they are much simpler or sometimes nonexistent. Best example could be the fact that there are no genders in English except a few nouns which have feminine or masculine character like 'actor (actress' or 'man (woman' which however do not influence declination of any parts of speech. Linguists will also point out certain regularities in grammar which are simpler than in any other language like: 'All progressive tenses have verbs with ing ending.'. They will probably claim that the rules are easy to understand or even sometimes unnecessary but it is enough to remember a few certain schemes. These arguments surely support the claim that English is an easy language to learn.