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Hi I want to ask another question A planet had to dominate its own orbit clearing the immediate region of smaller objects Why here we need a verbal clearing Clearing introduces an adjectival phrase that describes orbit or possibly planet when do we need to use Be verb You need to use the correct...

Chariot wrote Does maybe always come before a sentence I maybe go to a movie on the weekend In this sentence maybe comes before the main verb is it correct You have four options Maybe I ll go to a movie on the weekend Perhaps I ll go to a movie on the weekend I ll perhaps go to a movie on the...

Your sentences are fine will have been studying and will have been are fine You re right about will have been being in England but the reason has nothing to do with passive voice be in its locational sense is a non progressive verb like know This restriction to non progressive tenses applies in...

Hi guys I m not completely comfortable saying Have does not carry meaning in perfect tenses it is just a grammatical auxiliary verb That s true in a sense But on the other hand when we say They have cooked dinner we mean that now they have the result of cooking dinner In other words I don t think...

You certainly have a knack for languages given the fact you only have been learning English for a mere year Have does not carry meaning in perfect tenses it is just a grammatical auxiliary verb

CalifJim wrote My understanding is that would is always a modal verb and always an auxiliary verb so I m not sure I understand the question would is the backshifted form both of will and of would if that s what you mean I think that this will be the best choice I thought that this would be the...

Pastsimple wrote Maple wrote Which principles have been violated by those three poor sentences I especially don t like the must not have contained part The sentences strike me as odd and unnatural Here is a dollar I don t have 2 cents I think Inchoateknowledge may have applied the 3rd...

lt In the first context any of the options 1 4 would be correct ways of asking the question although 4 is slightly clumsy because of the repeated use of the verb to go gt There is no repetition The construction is be going to verb i e auxiliary verb

You call them differently because they are different Auxiliary verbs also called Primary auxiliary verbs to be to have and to do form tenses and show Aspect They can also be lexical verbs and they can be inflected Modal auxiliary verbs do not change form and they add modality to the lexical verb...

Infinitive to be Present am is are Present perfect has have been Auxiliary has have past participle been have is used to form the present perfect tense Yes This is done by combining has have with a past participle have is not used to make a present participle No The present participle is formed...