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Grammarian-bot wrote: Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children. I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any help/suggestions. Hi GB The...

With further consideration, I can only think that the author of the Wikipedia article on 'Subjunctive Mood' is considering the idea in its widest sense-- as 'any verb or structure that expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual'. This is interesting for linguistic purposes, but is...

Thank you for helping me out or trying to help me, Mr. M. As to your request for the online source of that kind, how about Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia? On its article on the Subjunctive Mood, under the sub-heading of "Construction using a modal verb," it gives four sentences: I recommend...

Hi, There are a lot of places in this article where you are incorrectly using tenses and modals that make it sound like these things are happening now, at the present time. I suggest that you review what you have written, try to find and correct these things, and then repost the improved...

Taka wrote: Remember, just because the modal verb 'would' appears in the main clause, this doesn't mean that the verb in the if clause must be in the subjunctive if the content of that clause is not presupposed to be false. The above is related to the following example sentence: ...

Cool Breeze has written the following: A. The present perfect in the passive: A new house has been built. Two new houses have been built. { http://www.englishforums.com/English/PresentPerfectPerfectInfinitive/cpmzk/Post.htm } -- B. The perfect infinitive in the passive: The perfect...

1. would is the modal used for the consequent clause of a conditional structure. If that suit were navy blue, I would buy it. If that suit were black with gray pin stripes, I would like it better. If it were gray, I would like that suit better. The condition ( if -clause) is implicit -...

Hi, You wrote: " But you can use non-idiomatic would like (i.e., with a literal use of like ): I think I would like that suit better in navy blue. " 1/ Please tell me the meaning of the modal would here. 2/ Is suit here a noun? Why isn't there an article? Why isn't there a verb?...

Dear forum I'm new here, finding this forum while searching for some paraphrases that are used in my Statement of Purpose (SoP), while applying for a PhD in Food Science. Then, I am lucky to find this forum, and I post my SoP here with the hope that someone, probably with a same interest, may...

hi tidus! you are correct. "...suffering..." is a present particle therefore it implies the action is still on going and "burn out" is the right usage in this case. if one was (most likely) to use "burnt out" in a sentence construction like in the above case, the use of any auxillary, or modal...