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Hello Casi I think this way about the tense of . In the sense of , can be reckoned as the past form of in the meaning as well as syntactically. (EX) I cannot swim now, but I could swim as fast as 100 m a minute when young. (EX) He said "I can swim" ---> He told me that he could swim. ...

JTT wrote: I have read Professor Lawler's offerings a number of times and I'm still reading and cogitating on the one you offered. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. You're very welcome. Have you viewed http://www.orlapubs.com/AL/L39.html, or is that what you're working from? ...

Hello Sextus Here you go: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or whether I...

Hello, I am very confuse about the infinitive tense, such as without to , I had read a grammar book which state never use to for such verb such as make, feel,see hear, eg as follow: (I knew if we add to infront of all these verb, it make no sense ,It is all these verb are special verb,...

Hi, Miriam! Thanks so much for your reply. Of course I'm still interested! 1. Sometimes when examples are given, certain forms begin to sound more acceptable. Strangely enough, only your example with "wish" still seems weird to me! The other two don't really sound that formal to me. I can...

Dear Sir or Madam I want to know if the question form of the verb "to have" is made by the auxiliary verb "to do" in all situations or it has some exceptions and in some situations it is made by changing the verb to have and subject ie: have you enough time? or Do you have enough time. ...