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What's happening here? Why the change from one modal to another? Not the full list, or any code list of what you may or might want to have in the future, but just those that your LECC agrees are in the "must carry" category now; i.e., all there deem these will be carried and they will be...

<"External to both subject and speaker". Clearly, that doesn't apply in this instance. "Internal drives" are external to the speaker, but not to the subject (the children).> Without going too far down the road to Psychologyville, what is your understanding of the word "drive" in that above...

MrPedantic wrote: Strange. I felt I had said too much on the subject already. Too much about other people's opinions. Make a stand. Here's one comment, for instance: MrPedantic wrote: The Thompson-Palmer hypothesis is incorrect. A native BrE speaker does not consistently interpret "have...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

After carefully reading all the posts again and the article mentioned by CJ, I conclude that operators are all those verbs (all auxiliaries main verbs and modals) that allow subject verb inversion. So to define operators we can say that;An operator could be a verb that acts as main verb in a...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute:1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

Thanks. I believe where an indefinite article may be used, the use of 'one' is justifiable too. My use of colon is acceptable too. 'Possibly' emphasise the degree of the probability. I was particularly interested in the use of modals. Thank you once more.

A. The present perfect in the passive: A new house has been built. Two new houses have been built.B. The perfect infinitive in the passive: The perfect infinitive is usually used with a defective auxiliary (also known as a modal auxiliary). The defective auxiliaries are can, could;...

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Thank you so much. In your answer, you wrote, "If the father literally calls her "Soccer Ball" as though it were a name, there is no article. I know that in the "if I/he/she/they + were" format, those clauses would be followed with the modal verb "would," but why did you use "were" in the...