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Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the usage of the present progressive tense. JTT: I...

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...

Hello Teachers and JTT JTT: and express a a range of certainty. My grammar book says certainty/possibility typically decreases in the order, though the order between and can vary depending on the context. 1) You are right. 2) You be right. 3) You be right. 4) You ...

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 two...

Go into Google and search on English grammar modals You will find lots of material there which can help.

i need to know where can i find english grammar rules! i shoudl write a work "modal verbs: can & may in the function of permission"!!!)

Hi Miriam, Actually "had better" is NOT a modal verb. Some authors call it a "modal idiom" (The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R.W. Burchfield), or a idiomatic modal. There are many English Grammar websites that talk about "had better" as a Modal Verb. For...