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I think here "let" is a modal auxiliary, and except for "ought to", they are followed by a bare infinitive. You'll find the same construction after "help", "make" (causative), and perhaps others, but I don't know the explanation for it, just that it's a grammar rule

hi agent c we are discussing the translations of sentences and some types of examples in montague grammer. this is my "formal semantics" lesson in school. i don't know well this issue but Roro helped me much. so i increase my knowledge a bit with discussing. this is the first handout of the...

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...

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...

Paco, First of all, I would say that the default position is shown in your Example ! It isn't much, but I hope it helps. CJ

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...

No. b) is "Id rather you had gone by air. The construction with "I 'd rather" is either + bare infinitive (present or past) when there is only one subject/when the subject is the same EG: I'd rather do it myself I'd rather have have done it myself (I would have preferred to do it...

MrP, I think we are not agreeing on what we mean by context. For me context would be any information not readily available from the fundamental meaning of the utterance. I have a sense of positive meaning in the first of these, and negative meaning in the second. Or to put it another way: #1...

Dear CJ, Do you think the deontic modal is marked/stylistic, too? "I asked if I might sit beside the mayor." Not as marked as the dynamic ones, but not as neutral as the epistemic ones. Deontic modals apply modality in the context of the law of the world in question. So in your sentence, the...

CGEL: And should is not used at all with past time meaning. Introduction to the Grammar of English - one of the series "Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics" - by Rodney Huddleston: The past tense of shall is should, and this occurs as the counterpart of shall in the backshifting and unreal...