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Jackson: See the catenative verb entry in wiki.. These verbs can be followed by other verbs - infinitive, gerund, and bare infinitive. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_catenative_verbs

Jackson: I highly recommend that you study the techniques of diagramming sentences (links below). Then it will make more sense to you. You can look in the dictionary to figure out the part of speeh for each word. Some words can be multiple parts of speech depending on how the word is used in the...

Hi CB, What is defective/modal auxiliary verb? Sorry for asking you too many questions. I hope you will give a touch to all the above questions. Thanks, Jackson

Hi, I am not sure how could one konw if the participle 'hung' is used intransitively here. This part is from my post in a thread named "three 'mixed bag' questions." I think the word "Does" should be replaced by "Is" at the start of my question....

To my home has nothing to do with verbs. To is a preposition here. An answer to your last question is given in a previous post: " The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in present-tense questions, negations, and conditional clauses." In other words, auxiliary need is...

Do we need to say more? Let me ask you few more questions. In Will you come to my home today : will is an auxiliary verb come is main verb to my home is infinitive object today is an adverb will is still there when this interrogative statement is changed affirmative statement, You will come to...

Jackson: #1 "do" is a verb. (auxiliary) not an adverb. "need" is the main verb; the object is the infinitive phrase..("need to" is synonymous with "have to") #2 say is the main verb, Need is an auxiliary verb. Like the auxiliaries can or may, it does not...

I believe the given sentences mean the same. 1: Do we need to say more? 2: Need we say more? Do is a question adverb. Correct? Need can function in different capacities as noun , verb and auxiliary verb . In the second sentence it is used as an auxiliary verb. e.g. We need say more means we are...

Hi, Just having a big problem with Main and Auxiliary Verbs, can anyone explain them, and help me try and do these Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 3. He does his homework every night. 4. Does he work hard at school? 5. I don't like ice cream. 6. They have finished their...

. The finite verb takes the person marker '-s'. “He lives in Britain.” - -finite verb is the main verb, 'live' “Where does he live?”-- finite verb is the auxiliary verb, 'do'; 'live' is an infinitive form “Does he live in Britain or France?”.-- finite verb...