The English lacks the thunderclap sound of the Urdu, and anyway you know what it means.

Since English lacks inflectional morphology to a large extent, the finite and non-finite forms of a given verb are often identical.

And perhaps because he relied on translators, the voices of the Amerasians who had not yet learned English often lack nuance and vividness.

Along with being quite startlingly impolite these days, the English are remarkably unbuttoned and signally lacking in phlegm.

English completely lacks such declensions meaning an adjective can be written in only one form.

English lacks some grammatical categories.

English lacks a direct equivalent to the pronoun mones; it would be "that-th", or "which-th" for questions.

Mulcaster does not define any of them, but attempts to lay down a standard spelling for them at a time when English lacked universal standardized spellings.

Its first task, a continuing one, was to help grocers, most of whose English was at least somewhat lacking, adjust to American business customs.