By Modals, Verbs

Hi, I was looking at the Englishpage.com for its tutorial on modal verbs and seemed to have found out that the functions of 'can' and 'could' overlaps in two categories: possibility and request. Does that mean we can replace one with the other without making any difference,...

Hi, A:How is it different? Is the zero conditional and the second and third ones type 1? I think CalifJim told us that the modal 'can' counts as present. 1.If you can make money, please use the money to help people. 2. If you can make money, use money to help people. 3. If you can...

Hi,I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what I'm going to say: A lot depends on theory, and...

The actions seem pretty similar to me, thus there's no need to repeat:I would have been able to do make this toy ship yesterday and the day before yesterday. I would have taken you with me to Tokyo yesterday and certainly the day before yesterday, had I had the intention to do so. You...

After rereading my opening post, I realized the sentence structure was misleading and the message could be ambiguous and confusing. I'll reword it here see if it's clear. Hope this would give others better idea of what I was trying to say. Thanks. Raen

No? Thanks CalifJim. I wonder if I can say this and be understood: "Be-verbs" and modals are syntactic words that function to assist others that are semantic? Is it incomprehensible? Any thoughts and opinions are welcom. Raen

a word that doesn't have a meaning when standing alone but exist to assist other words such as Be-verbs (is, are...) or modals (can, will must.....) etc. and its meaning is little to zero that if it's taken out of a sentence, the message of the sentence is still intact, for...

This is Rotter again. Cool Breeze, I am delighted when you pointed out my mistakes. I want you and all the others to point out each and every mistake I make here.However, I can't understand the mistake I made here.May is an auxiliary verb.1. Cool Breeze may have been to Sweden. Cool Breeze...

Hello... Can somebody help me this? "I hope you'd be successful." (would be...)Is this correct? Because I know the subjunctive hope can also work with the modal verb would, meaing that the speaker is expressing the suppostional and unreal nature of that hope. Please help me. I am a...

Use the bare infinitive, not the full infinitive, after the modals (can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must).Use the bare infinitive, not the full infinitive, after forms of the verbs make, let, have, see, hear, watch, listen to, feel and an object.Use either the bare infinitive...