Hi Anon: You can ask: What does it do? What is its function? How does it work? In English, you can make a statement with a helping verb: He works. --> He does work. "do" is a helping verb, and it agrees with the subject,

...it couldn't get any more confusing... ~~ A verb in the active voice expresses an action done by its subject. A verb in the passive voice expresses an action done to its subject. In passive voice, the verb phrase always includes a form of be

i want to ask about theses adverbs both, all,each i read in a book that we use them after helping verbs eg, you are all coming but if we use the same structure in other sentence eg. we have all done. here it gives the

The version of English I'm used to does not permit this. I'm from California. I think that in our dialect, the only time you can make a contraction using "have" is when "have" is used as a helping verb. For example,

In the interrogative and the negative of the simple past tense, the 'past indicator' is in the helping verb: I did not even belong in this..........

Hi Redalert, and welcome to English Forums. How Money Works -- This is a title. This is how money works. -- This is a sentence. Both are okay in the right conrext. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In

Which one of the following is correct and why? How money works. This is how money works. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In the sentence written above, is it ok to ommit the pronoun "I" and continue the

Ate is the simple past tense. Eaten is past participle, which is used with a helping verb to indicate an action already completed by some point of time in the past ( have eaten is present perfect form becasue action is completed by now, had eaten

Eaten is the past participle. Have is an auxillary or helping verb. Put both forms together and you have created the present perfect form.

Hi, In your example, "has" and "have" are both in the same time frame, or "tense." The mail has been sent in the recent past. This tense is called "present perfect." "Perfect" means the action is