Being obsolete is actually helpfulin this case, I think. It gives a hint of the ansient and archaic taste as the word has it originaly. But I must make sure if using "be-" is not wrong. If so, "bemartyred" sounds better to me.

*Yet I think there are some cases that you can't just drop the "be-" like "besieged", am I not right?

sorry I miss spelled, I meant "Benighted".

I thought it's worth to add that this "Were" and its conjugation for the first and the third singular person in the old English has to do with the old Germanic roots. There were no distinguishes of the verb "to be" for different persons as it has still remained the same in Danish for instance.
Angles have taken lots of these stuff into English when they migrated to "England" in the 5th century A.D. They were originally from where today is the Germany-Denmark border and there are lots of hints of southern Danish dialect in English that is sometime amazing.
I'd go so far to say that even the word Anglo-Saxon is a Danish dialect. The equivalent of the word "and" is "og" in Danish which is pronounced "O". "Angle og Saxon" I do believe was the original form of Anglo-Saxon.

American Herutage says: "Subjunctive: Of, relating to, or being a mood of a verb used in some languages for contingent or hypothetical action, action viewed subjectively, or grammatically subordinate statements."
Was that what you meant?

C'mon for the sake of all poor-second-language-learners Speedwell. That's the whole point with my problem. If only I were living in an English country I wouldn't have much trouble as I do now. That't th eexact problem I do live where Hamlet died; where he called it "a prison" and I'm so pissed off with Britishs that they did not invaded Denmark once for ever so that we could today speak the languge I love. Alas! However your father is damn right, I should say.
But lets keep on the subject and wait for more comments.
(Seems that people visitingthis site less and less, don't you think so?)

But can one classify the Major methods of teach/learning English?
How have they been made? When and where have these method been started?
I'm getting curious all about it. It's now more than just to find a school for myself.

No comments on relationship. Though I had the same confusion when I for the first time came across "If I were...". I couldn't understand why it was "were" where I would expect it should be "was".
Then I was told that it was an old fashion figure of speech that is still used in English today in the conditional sentences, followed by a subordinate clause: "If I were.... I would...".
However there are many native English speakers here who can explain it better than me.

Hi speedwell
Do you also say "Let me know the 411" in your erea or it's just NY slang? I got that in an e-mail from a guy who's originally from San Francisco but lives in NYC.
By the way, may I ask you to email me please? It's still about the English but a personal matter.
goossun@yahoo.com

I was confused on the S because I see that Iranian and Spanish peoples have difficulty pronuncing the words which beging with S following a consonant, such as speak. They'd pronunce "Espeak". So I was wonder if the name of the letter S is "ess" or not.

How about the word like reconceptualization? Do you consider it as a three-major-stressed word?