By English grammar, Negatives

With the verbs suppose, imagine and expect we can make negative forms in two ways: subject + verb + not // subject + do not + verb + so I suppose not. // I don't suppose so. I imagine not. // I don't imagine so. I expect not. // I don't expect so. The Heinemann English Grammar Grammars...

One of the main problems is the source of English Grammar. English Grammar 'Rules' were based on the written forms of English and basically ignored any reference to Spoken forms used by Native Speakers. There was and it appears still is contempt for the spoken form of English. In fact even the...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry If...

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Generally, you are correct, but time isn't everything in such constructions. The degree of doubt might determine which of the two tenses, the past perfect (for most doubt), or the past (for less) should be used, irrelevant of the temporal element involved. Should you have the opportunity,...

The usages of the present perfect tense are: 1.Actions which started in the past and are still continuing 2.Actions which happened at some unknown time/unspecific time/unfinished time in the past,which meansit's important to say that something happened (or didn't happen).3.Actions which happened...

I am not good at present perfect tense.The usages of this tense is: 1.Actions which started in the past and are still continuing 2.Actions which happened at some unknown time/unspecific time/unfinished time in the past,which meansit's important to say that something happened (or didn't...

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#2 and #3 are correct, but #1 is not. You should not use the auxiliary verb "did" making negative sentences if you have the construction "used to". You can say, for example, either Did Tom use to get up at 6? or Used Tom to get up at 6? but not Tom didn't use to get up at 6. At least, this is...

I understand now. Thank you. I would like to be an English grammar geek too. But I guess I will never be. It would be nice to be so good at English. But it is not my native language. So, it is almos impossible to be as good at foreign languages as native speakers. But I will try to be as good as...