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Are the English modals verbs, or are they auxiliaries?
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Here are two sentences from Diana Wynne Jones's "Conrad's Fate": 1 Christopher just stood and looked at the Count as if he were summing...
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Which paraphrase would you use here? You must be mad to do that. 1. I believe you are mad to do that. 2. It is necessary for you to be mad in order...
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"To be done" can have two uses, can't it? 1) the salad is yet to be done/completed (pending. non-modal). 2) this job is to be done or I'll...
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Pedants, out yourselves!
What is the most annoying phrase in the English language?
For some people it's:
"Awesome" - when the thing referred...
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Hi there, I'm looking for an Englisch expression: "After all this advice and information, you should put ... and ... together". Where is...
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I had an English teacher a long time ago who liked using ought to instead of should . Do you think there is a large difference between these two words...
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What do you think of this? I have to write a letter. (The obligation is the result of another’s direct command or direction.) I have a letter to write...
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Hi there, Can you provide me with websites publishing approved journals on linguistics parlicularly applied linguistics and EFL? Most websites I come to...
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Is Standard English neutral in social terms?
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b 1 They mustn’t think I’m interested. 2 They must think I’m not interested. Do these sentences have the same meaning? the first one analyse is "...
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f 1 She stopped looking for a way out. 2 She stopped to look for a way out. my analying to these sentences is like this: sentence f1 : " She "...
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Interesting that, in modern use, "have + object + to + verb" can express obligation, when it normally expresses possession:
She has a train to catch...
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e 1) I’ll do what I think is right. 2 ) I’ll do it, which I think is right. "i" pronoun functioning as subject. "will" is modals "do"...
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I wonder if there's anyone around who could enlighten me a little about the use of "Syllabic Consonant". As far as I know it's usually syllabic N (as in...
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Do you agree that, in their obligative readings, "must" is generally subjective while "have to" is always subjective?
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Summarising: Three ways of looking at it. Extracts from the Geoffrey Leech article, " />English Grammar in Conversation .
View 1: Spoken English has...
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Would you say there's modality in these sentences? He had thirty years to wait. We had some miles to drive before we reached the hotel. He has himself...
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I had a sentence " Political compassion for a suffering nation or state provides another level that needs to be taken into account": Should "needs"...
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a 1 What do you want? a2 Which do you want? what is the category and function of these sentences? can we say that "what" is a pronoun? "which"...
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I need a list of English words and their different forms.
ie:
loan loan loan loanable loan loaned loan loaner loan loaners loan loaning loan...
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Hi! I have a question. Textbooks say that the pronoun it is not used to refer to humans, except for babies (and even that happens not very often, as it...
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what are the differences between the following sentences in form and meaning? a 1 What do you want? 2 Which do you want? and what are the categories of...
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Hello, people As you see I have some difficulty in understanding classes of verbs, especially if they are connected to one another. The classes of unaccusative...
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Which one is the right choice in this sentence?
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