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Just trying to get my head around this long verb phrase can anyone help me break it down into its elements Working backwards I can see that have been eating is the present perfect continuous form Presumably the preceding had to is just a periphrastic modal meaning the same as must What then is...

Modal verb I have to study Grammar all the time Present perfect I have been in Dalat for twenty years She has been Present perfect continuous I have been eating She has been eating Causative I have my car serviced If clause If I have time I ll go with you If I had time I would go with you If I...

Precise times like at five cannot be used with the present perfect but they can be used with all the modalities combined with have When a modal verb can could may might must etc is followed by have the proposition which follows is regarded as past He must like classical music to judge by his...

lt Can you think of any language in this world with more simplified grammar gt Simplified Would you care to try to explain the use of the present perfect Or maybe how we use modal auxilaries

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 participle d Simple Past past tense form e Present Perfect Progressive have has been present participle f...

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 6 1 past continue 2 past perfect continue 3 present perfect continue 4 present continue i confuse all such as 1 2 3 4

Rule Modal verbs and must is one of them cannot be followed by a past tense form To express past tense after a modal add have and the past participle This is not truly a present perfect but a modal perfect In the case of the modal perfect construction the difference between simple past and...

Rule Modal verbs and must is one of them cannot be followed by a past tense form To express past tense after a modal add have and the past participle This is not truly a present perfect but a modal perfect In the case of the modal perfect construction the difference between simple past and...

The whole thing is mine No quotes To expand According to many linguists a sentence with a modal actually splits into two parts the modality and the proposition Sometimes the word residue is used instead of proposition The neighbors may want this old refrigerator The modality is may naturally This...

Very true Aeolus29 There are only two tense inflections in English the s for the present only for third person singular and the ed for the past In this sense there are only two tenses All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and or modals with the so called non...