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Hi Paco, Thanks for your explanation and the materials you've found for me. I really appreciate that. I guess, by reading the information you gave here, that "probability" is bit more to the ultimate truth than "possibility" since it has to come with evidence. Therefore, when using must in a...

Dear teachers, I would lile to ask you some big questions, and please be any help. I read in my text book about the use of past modals for degrees of certainty and opinions and advice. For degress of certainty, the book says: Probability: She must have left already. She must not have...

MrPedantic wrote: Anonymous wrote: 2. I think of it as a past subjunctive; but I wouldn't refer to it as such, because the next question would be "how can I distinguish the past subjunctive from the simple past, if they look the same?" It seems safer to say that the past tense can be used...

Welcome to English Forums! You want this: If I had known that he was going to be there, I would never have gone to the party. had known: Past Perfect was going: Past Progressive would have gone: I call this "Conditional Perfect", but many writers do not call this a tense. It is a...

Hello all, I am applying to take a CELTA course and they gave me an application task to do before I can enter the program. I am having some difficulty with some parts and was wondering if some one would be willing to help me. I use msn messanger under hpainter24@hotmail.com feel free to add me...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood' for...

Pemmican wrote:As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present...

please tell me what is this mean and please make this sentence and example. 1 shall 2 should 3 can 4 could 5 must 6 might i donot understand 2,4 and...

Posted By: just the truth on 04-23-2005 02:00 AM Subject: Re: Past Perfect Message: Paco: What you are (or the book is) saying is just about epistemic modals. Some root modals like 'will' (futurity) or 'can' (ability) have tense finiteness. So your saying cannot be generalized for all...

Hello I'm interested in this thread because I myself didn't get the usage and grammar of "would rather". I think "would rather" constructs are really peculiar as an English sentence. Let me show some example sentences for the discussion sake. (1) I would rather be lucky in business (than...