In Modals^x

Hi Would you check if my use of the modal is correct Hi Sam Nice to hear from you I just received your email As I said to you when we were together yesterday 1 I would love to go out shopping with you Monday When shall we meet Please let me know the place in your next email Did you contact John I...

Ellisa This is a very long passage and your other post seems to be even longer The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages Also many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post If you post only one paragraph at a time then different...

First of all they aren t sentences You need to complete the thought to have sentences For example I would have sent you a letter is a sentence Secondly reply can t be used in the passive There is no such thing as be replied You ll have to change the verb Let s say I would have been seen __That...

I answered this question i just need someone check my answer and tell me if there a mistake and what is the correction of it What types of phrase have been underlined Analyse the phrases and give information about what elements they contain and what sort of words they consist of 1 3 6 9 12 15 18...

quote user Jackson6612 What is defective modal auxiliary verb quote Jackson See the catenative verb entry in wiki These verbs can be followed by other verbs infinitive gerund and bare infinitive http en wiktionary org wiki Appendix English_catenative_verbs

Hi CB quote user Cool Breeze To my home has nothing to do with verbs To is a preposition here quote Did I say it had anything to do with verbs Yes to is a preposition but to my home functions an infinitive object Am I wrong quote user Cool Breeze The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in...

quote user Jackson6612 We need say more quote Not correct Modal need has no assertive forms Modal need must be used only in interrogatives and negatives In this it differs from other modals See Re Doesn t don t need to be amp need not to be CJ

quote user Jackson6612 Do we need to say more Let me ask you few more questions In Will you come to my home today to my home is infinitive objectBut when Do we need to say more is changed into affirmative statement Do just disappears We need to say more What is your explanation for this quote To...

Anon Yes modals can be used with intransitive verbs Sleep is intransitive yet these are frequent I would sleep if I could I don t hear him he must be sleeping The same is true for vanish and surface I don t see him anymore he must have vanished into thin air The submarine should have surfaced...

Thank you very much What I am not sure is if we can use modal verbs like could would must and can in front of an intransitive verb I think it could but I am too familiar with it since I havent been using the constructions like that many times So all these are possible with modals doing what they...