Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

Hello everyone, Would anyone mind having a read through my answers below to see if i'm on the right tracks? I'm looking at the meaning/function and form of the sentence/underlined words! With many thanks!! Fiona is very

It seems to me that I read somewhere that the use of done as an auxiliary is a borrowing from Black English. It is dialectal. Substitute has or have for the standard version. 1. you done have done me 2. before the cool done has run out 1.

1. There is no objection to the use of time words with the past perfect tense. The objection is when these words are used with the present perfect tense. You may, however, if you wish, replace "last week" with "the previous

I have put all of the main verbs in blue boldface type in your sentences. The auxiliaries are in purple : 1. Chris is in Tokyo at the moment. AUXILIARY BE ( is ) = MAIN verb 2. Richard might win the tournament. MAIN = win, AUXILIARY =

Hi There, I am having trouble understanding Main verbs and Auxiliary verbs could someone please assist me. If there is a modal verb before the main verb would I class this as a main verb? I understand that the primary Auxiliary

May I comment on the first two: (1) When she leaved (the irregular past is "left" -- you have to memorize it), she did not thought twice (after an auxiliary verb such as "did," you ALWAYS use the base form (infinitive without

Many thanks for your reply and recommendation. It helps a lot. Your list of auxiliaries seems all right, but I would not include used to . I thought it’s just an idiom, but my grammar book and Longman dictionary tell me it’ is

I find that have to is most often called a semi-modal . It has the effect of a modal like must , but is conjugated like an ordinary verb. ( has to, have to, had to, ... ) I would certainly not call it an auxiliary verb with an infinitive, though

Hi, I would like to ask some questions about modal auxiliary. First, does HAVE TO belong to MODAL AUXILIARY? I have visited some websites on this topic. (I also searched here for the keyword, but there are too many articles and thus I