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Re: Confused with verbs

Anonymous wrote: Hi, I usually edit some of the stuff my coworkers write around here, I believe I have good knowledge of what I'm doing but now I doubt it because of a document I'm reading right now... This is how it reads (in many paragraphs): "It is recommended that the agency review and...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 256 days ago Grammar Verbs Clauses Expressions Subjunctives Paragraphs Common errors
Re: worse/worst

Hi guys, I always say 'if worst come to worst'. I use the subjunctive because I view the event as an unlikely possibility. If I don't view it that way, I don't use this expression at all. I say worst/worst because all my thoughts are focused on 'what is the worst thing that may happen'. I'm...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Clive 334 days ago Expressions Subjunctives
Re: without 'will' ?

Dear Marcelinx,May I share with you the two following websites that I found very helpful to me regarding the use of 'subjuntives' in ENGLISH?1. http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/subjunctive.html2. http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/061.htmlThe first site lists the verbs and expressions...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Hoa Thai 338 days ago Verbs Expressions Subjunctives

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi GoodmanYou wrote: I have been labeled and called by many descriptions, hinted being “Ignorant” is the first ... I'm not hinting that you're ignorant. I say that if a learner tells me "informal" means "wrong", I'll understand that he says so because he is ignorant. But you...

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Re: we shall vs we will

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

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Re: "Yesterday, Jane insisted that we order(ed) the toy."

Hi N2GJane insisted that I buy the toy. --> Prior to Jane's insistance, you had no intention of buying the toy and may have also argued against the purchase. You decided to buy the toy as a result of Jane's insistance. So, Jane's will has been imposed on you. (It is not clear whether or not...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 117 days ago Expressions Subjunctives
Re: "Yesterday, Jane insisted that we order(ed) the toy."

---------- After a past indicative tense form the distinction of meaning between present and past tense forms usually disappears entirely: She desired that he might come at once. We demanded that the burden should be removed. In recent literature and present colloquial usage,...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 1 yr 118 days ago Simple present Grammar Verbs Tenses Literature Expressions Subjunctives Past tenses
Re: God blesses you all.

Kooyeen wrote:Hi Jackson,God bless you!, God bless America!, Long live the Queen!, etc. are all fixed expressions.As far as I know, these are all examples of the subjunctive. Basically, they are remnants of a verb form that isn't used much anymore and these have basically survived as idiomatic...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 172 days ago Verbs Expressions Subjunctives
Re: is this sentence correct? God forbid, he died such a fearful death.

Isn't "God forbid" an example of a subjunctive expression that has simply turned into an "idiom"? Something like the expressions "Long live the Queen." and "Be that as it may"?

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 182 days ago Expressions Subjunctives Idioms
Re: I would rather you "attended" the party tomorrow.

In #1 it is an expression of will and in #2 it is a set phrase of hypothesis ('it is...time')-- both are examples of structures that take the past tense form (the subjunctive).

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Mister Micawber 1 yr 236 days ago Tenses Expressions Subjunctives Past tenses

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