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Hi everyone! The book “English Grammar In Use. Intermediate Students, Cambridge University Press” tells us: The following verbs are not NORMALLY used in Continues Tenses (using the “ing” form of the verb), although you can form the gerund with them: To like, to love, to hate, to want, to need,...

Hi, hiperaktif. Your sentence is the case of inversion. There is a string of rules regarding inversions. I'd present three of them that I believe are the most important to those who are going to take English grammar exams. Inversion Rules Rule 1: In the sentences where 'if' is...

Yes, Tiju, those are very broad areas of English grammar. Try your grammar book first, or these websites: MODAL AUXILIARY VERBS and CONTINUOUS TENSES . And you can use Google to find other full presentations on verbs.

Hello Maria Welcome to this EnglishForum. I myself am a mere English learner from Japan. I'm glad if we can learn English together here. I think you'd better parse your sentence this way; Main frame: Each follows Harry. Modify some of its elements a little, you'll get: Each (of the...

Hello Julie I'm an English learner from Japan. One problem of our kids here is that they are not taught much about the grammar of Japanese, though they are forced to learn English grammar rather intensively. As the consequence, they tend to parse Japanese sentences by using the concepts of...

Hello I made the list by referring a grammar book "A New Guide to English Grammar" written in Japanese by Dr Egawa. The description about verb-gerund-infinitive relations in the book seems to be based principally on Quirk's CGEL(1985), Wood's CEU(1981), Fowler's MEU(1965), and LDCE(1987). The...

If we use passive voice, we don't have to change it in reported speech. Am I right? JTT: That's right. Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don't do always the tense backshift in direct-to-indirect speech conversion. But I don't take it as that those books are...

Paco: I have already answered this question to you. I wrote here: Paco, there is not any English Grammar book, or other book from which I've taken my feeling that we don't have to change the passive when we're using reported speech. I just believed that, and in that way I always post this...

Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the usage of the present progressive tense. JTT:...

This is a rather interesting, but rare, construction. It's the use of the comparative - not the superlative - to mean that the adjective or adverb does not apply fully, but only somewhat. It can be paraphrased with "somewhat" or "rather" or "fairly", or with "more X than not" This restaurant...