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Here are my opinions. Two different should's are possible: the should of expectation should-exp the should of advice should-adv should-adv is much more common than should-exp.should-exp expresses an evaluation of the situation with regard to what is possible, probable, plausible, or...

I think the best way to explain this is telling your friend that in English you use only one verbal element to indicate the tense. In this sentence the auxiliary "did" is indicating the past tense so you should keep the verb in the infinitive. Otherwise it will be redundant. I hope...

Hi, I would appreciate any help to explain in grammatical terms why the following sentence doesn't work: * I didn't talked to Simon on Sunday. Is it because a past simple verb cannot follow another past tense? It is obviously incorrect, but I'm not sure how to explain this to my...

By "true" I think you mean "correct"? True is the opposite of false, but doesn't apply to grammar. Only you can tell if your cell phone has no power, which would make the statement true. As far as correct goes, you could say "My cellphone has no power...

Recently, I've heard this sort of theory so I'm gonna share this with you and want to hear your opinions as well. It's about categorizing the language into "Objective or Subjective (not she, her ..)" depending on the meaning. 1. Objective meaning : do (perfect tense...

Do existed in Old English more than a thousand years ago as a regular verb and meant to cause. It is impossible to say who introduced it to English. It's use as an auxiliary in questions and negations was established in Shakespeare's day when it was correct to say bothI know not himandI...

In that respect, I would like to know when and how the auxiliary "do" appeared in English. What kind of people introduced it into the English language? I would like to know who decided about the value of tenses of the Past. They do not correspond to the value of the tenses of the Past in...

Anonymous wrote:Thank you all for your replying to my stupid question. I really appreciate it. Hi Anon, In contrary, I don’t think your question is stupid. It brings up an issue that has stirred many good discussions in this forum and elsewhere. Here is an extracted text that...

Hello, Dr. E.T. Babalola! I'm still uncertain of the third example you've given here. Are you fully convinced that the italicised part of the third example is a non-finite clause? As I know, clauses can be divided into two kinds, namely finite clauses and non-finite clauses. The distinguishing...

It is gramatically right that If-adverb clauses have 'present verb' instead of future auxiliary 'will,'. like this. If it rains tomorrow, we won't go on a picnic. ( o ) Yes, it's correct, it's called tense simplification: replacing the future in subordinates by present (see Swan, Practical...