I agree, but you have omitted "English" - perhaps to avoid the awkwardness of using it twice.I'm not entirely sure. Learning is the gerund subject, so it should be singular, and the use of "both" is misplaced.
Learning to speak and write English is important.
Otherwise, it can be rearranged as a plural.
Learning to speak, and learning to write, are both important.'
Just my two cents.
The responses from both konungursvia and Raymott are more satisfactory than my post #2.
Those are indeed alternatives, but I think a construction with 'both ...and' is natural enough. The thread has become longer than it should have been because konungursvia and Raymott stepped in to correct my unsatisfactory response.:up: But I don't understand the compulsion to use a construction that makes such a big thing about a difficult grammar point. ;-) Why not just start 'It is important...'? Or separate the two options: 'WritingEnglish is important but so's speaking it'.
Because it's all part of the game?:up: But I don't understand the compulsion to use a construction that makes such a big thing about a difficult grammar point. ;-) b
May I rephrase that?The thread has become longer than it should have been because konungursvia and Raymott stepped in to correct my unsatisfactory response.
:up: (But the way I play the game - of communicating rather than Doing Grammar - is that I find a simple way to say what I need (and indeed, in language classes I was fairly flexible in my interpretation of the truth about my home life ;-)).Because it's all part of the game?
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