By Auxiliaries, Adverbs

Hello CJI have four English grammar books. Two are written in Japanese and both treat an agentless passive as a kind of passive, although one of them introduces the concept of "stative passive" to explain the usage of agentless passive. English-written grammar books are Quirk's CGEL and...

You raise an interesting point, Paco. Yes, I wouldn't say "Inevitably surrender to death in the end though we shall" because it sounds distinctly unnatural. I am less certain about the grammatical reason, but I believe it's related to the proximity principle: the listener needs the main clause to...

"a" is more common but "b" is not so bad."Both" in attributive uses commonly behaves like a middle-positional adverb in its position.The middle-positional adverbs are positioned like:(1) When the main verb is not "be" and the main stands as a finite (=tense/person bearing) verb, the adverbs are...

What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

Hello, Janissary, 1. If a clause begins with a negative adverb, inverted word order must usually be used, with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to...

You can even expand that to "Frequency adverbs come after the auxiliary and before the main verb". always, sometimes, never, usually, rarely, frequently, almost always, hardly ever (But not "once in a while", "from time to time", and 'big phrases' like that! And not typically the ones...

Hello AnonALWAYS comes after the auxiliary adverb and before the main verb. She ALWAYS has to hurry in the morning. She must ALWAYS hurry in the morning.paco

Rotter wrote:1. She is working.I guess the word 'working' is an adverb.2. She is working at a nursery.I guess the words 'at a nursery' are adverbial compliments.Please tell me if I am wrong. You are wrong. 'Working' is the main verb and 'is' is the auxiliary.

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE = definite article RADIO = noun (used as an...

I'd even say the adverb is to be placed Behind the auxiliary and Before the main verb.