When can a person use the phrases "is come" and "has come" in sentences. You can always use "has come". If you are a person living in the 16th century, or trying to imitate one, you can use "is come".

While I was studying the differences between two words, compel and impel, I was confused about the example sentence, that is "Donnelly felt impelled to write and complain". I wonder whether this sentence is passive voice or not? If it

It is only recently that I discovered that with the auxiliary did n't , use d to is probably incorrect. The proximity of use d t o is such that it's hard to hear what actually is going on. This is one of the numerous points of

Hi LiJ Even though a verb is in the past tense in English, that doesn't necessarily mean that the action occurred in the past. That's why the term preterit, or preterite, is sometimes used to refer to such verbs. The modal/defective

Some would contrast compound forms such as "she will eat" with forms in other languages (e.g. "elle mangera"), and argue that the latter is an inflected form, and thus a genuine "future tense", whereas the former is

Hi. I'm a Japanese university student, working on my graduation thesis. I'm studying locative inversion with modal auxiliary verb, such as (1-3). (locative inversion consists of <locative phrase＋verb＋subject>,and its derivative

Are the English modals verbs, or are they auxiliaries? You were not always so undecided, old chap. See your contributions here: http://www.englishforums.com/English/BasicSemanticMeaningsModal-Auxiliaries/bvkvj/post.htm MrP

They are auxiliaries. In the English language they are: can,could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will and would

I am a Chinese graduate student. The following is part of my master's thesis. Who can help me polish my language. Thank you very much.William Somerset Maugham (1874 1965), born in Paris, is one of the most popular writers in British

Matthew Huntbach (Email Removed): I introduced it, and I am from Sussex, not Yorkshire. "By then" indicating a point in time, followed by "would" and the present tense Grammatically, the part following the `would' (a modal