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Grammarian bot wrote Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to Any help suggestions Hi GBThe to in...

Milky wrote I d like to can swim is ungrammatical In English modal auxiliaries like can and must are disallowed in infinitival clauses That is a statement that is true of any variety of English with which I am familiar Prescriptivists and descriptivists are often going to agree that something is...

Would this be seen as a prescriptivist statement or a descriptivist one I d like to can swim is ungrammatical In English modal auxiliaries like can and must are disallowed in infinitival clauses

Peaceblinkfriend wrote Hi If I hadn t passed my exam I wouldn t have gone to Cancun This is a conditional clause and in this instance it is being used to talk about something that might have happened in the past but did not in fact happen In this sort of conditional clause you use the past...

Cool Breeze wrote 1 Leaving taps on and using too much water is very bad for the environment Easy 2 gerunds right Right 2 Everyone should be recycling rubbish Should is a modal auxiliary or a defective auxiliary as these verbs are also called It is always followed by an infinitive Be recycling...

1 Leaving taps on and using too much water is very bad for the environment Easy 2 gerunds right Right 2 Everyone should be recycling rubbish Should is a modal auxiliary or a defective auxiliary as these verbs are also called It is always followed by an infinitive Be recycling is a present...

See at the BBC learning site Note that with modal auxiliary verbs do and did are not used Can you play the clarinet NOT Do you can play the clarinet I can t play the clarinet very well NOT I don t can play the clarinet But I can play the recorder NOT I do can play the recorder http www bbc co uk...

There is no way to use do with a modal auxiliary because do does did requires an infinitive and modals or defective auxiliaries as I call them don t have an infinitive That s one reason they are called defective CB

HelloI have trouble explaining modal auxiliaries to German speakers He must be drunk to put this into the past He must have been drunk She should see the doctor this into the past she should have seen the doctor But He can play the pianointo the past 1 he can have played the piano or 2 he could...

Jackson6612 wrote I hope this sentence is correct Your teacher may have discussed the sequence of tenses Can we use might in place of may If we cannot do that then please let me know the reason Your teacher might have discussed the sequence of tenses Hi Jackson 6612All defective auxiliaries or...