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Hello, I am very confuse about the infinitive tense, such as without to , I had read a grammar book which state never use to for such verb such as make, feel,see hear, eg as follow: (I knew if we add to infront of all these verb, it make no sense ,It is all these verb are special verb, whenever...

I think 'Why?' is always the most difficult question, for anyone in general and often for native speakers of a language in particular. I wonder if some of the nuancing arises from the grammar. Let me outline how my thoughts are going. The present perfect 'Have you finished' seems politely to...

Pilita, I think your problem is that you are inconsistent. Some of your sentences are perfectly correct, but then you make elementary mistakes in other sentences that seem to show that you haven't totally understood why your best sentences are as good as they are! For example, your sentence:...

It's "...do you not like". I suppose the answer is that the negation of "to like" is "not to like". So, in the present tense, the negation of "like" is "not like". The correct word order is therefore "...do you not like". However, as you quite rightly point out, it *IS* abbreviated to "don't...

What an interesting topic... I have to agree with your opinion, language reflects very much the thinkings or esp. outer circumstances of a people and its culture; you can see that e.g. by how many words exist in one language for the same or at least equal thing: Why else does e.g. English...