By Auxiliaries, Negatives

why do we need to change the past verb to a bare infinity infinitive in question and negative formOnly one past marker is allowed within a single clause. The auxiliary takes the past marker, so the main verb cannot. The regular past marker is d, but some verbs are irregular, of course. The...

Thanks CJ for the reply. The tense is carried out by auxiliary verb in past tense, why do we need to change the past verb to bare infinity in question and negative form. such as "did you go " in other tense you dont alter verb such as "i am going" "are you going" why do we need to change the...

"Do" is the finite verb when negative occurs, which turns "want" into an auxiliary verb along with "sleep". "As you" is added to make things clearer. It depends on how the finite verb agrees with the pronoun: "We don't want to sleep in the same bed (as each other)" - both of us share the...

Send me not away from you!What say you?Do not send me away from you!What do you say?Basically, questions and negatives without the auxiliary do. Is this kind of structure incorrect? Can I use it all the time? Like in I don't think so, can I say I think not so or something like this?

Mnrz57 wrote:hi allI know when a sentence starts with rarely, hardly etc it turn into question form likerarely have I been therethe question is that how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CANhardly you can find a car hereor hardly can you find a car herewhich one is correct?thanks...

... how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CAN?Same rule. With these negative polarity items like hardly and rarely, invert subject and operator so that you have the same word order as you would use in a question. For more on operators, see also Post:245063 and...

"The semiauxiliary does not normally appear in affirmative sentences-- only negative (They needn't be) and interrogative (Need they be?)." good to know, thanks.

I needn't have gone to work (was unnecessary, still I did)I did not need to go to work (was unnecessary, not inferable if I did) -- These are different because you have set them in different tenses. The appropriate comparison is between I needn't go to work and I did not need to go to work--...

Pronouncing them alone, I would say dəʊnt and dʌzəntAs negative auxiliaries, these are usually stressed.That guy above me is right, in connected speech the final consonants may change.

Hi, You can use 'like' in various ways, such as these. eg adjective Coke is like Pepsi. Coke is not like lemonade. When you use 'like' as an adjective, don't use 'do'. eg verb My sisters like Coke. My brothers don't ( ie do not) like Coke. 'Do' is used as the auxiliary/helping verb with the...