In English grammar^x, Verbs^x

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly...

Paco: Thank for your answers. The same to JTT. I promise not more questions about passive and reported speech. Now I think I get it. 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...

Very true, Aeolus29. There are only two tense inflections in English - the "s" for the present (only for third person singular), and the "ed" for the past. In this sense there are only two tenses. All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and/or modals with the...

Hi, Thanks for all of your contributions. I'd like to especially thank rhetor for your detailed answers. re. The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. This was one of the questions on the topic of 'relative pronoun' in an English grammar study program. The...

Hello This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations. My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods (indicative/subjunctive) and...

That is me Nigora, I have forgotten my username and password, so i am anonymous this time so, about the verb 'love' and other stative verbs --- language is alive and it changes throughout the time. stative verbs are being used by native speakers in progressive form in different contexts. but i...

Monika asked, in {http://www.englishforums.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=70995} Could you please tell me when to use me or I? I received the following message from an Australian native speaker: ...This is exciting, not only for Sue but for you and I too .. (I thought it was me in this case)...

I am not a native speaker, but I know a little about English grammar; but I sometimes have some problems with determined constructions. I would like you to answer the following questions: 1. Once I write the following phrase to a friend: I doubt you to write the article on time. He said this...

People sometimes refer to the CGEL on this site. Conveniently, some sample chapters from this publication are now online at CGEL sample chapters The preliminary chapter includes the odd lapse of logic. This is one of the first. Apologies for the fairly lengthy quotation: Another kind of...

Su's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I...