Hi, I have a question of "have" and need your help: when I use it as "own" in an interrogative sentence and I want to express the meaning of "do you have any idea?", can I use it this way: "Have you any

She's had to do a lot of work. = She has had to do a lot of work. "She has has to do a lot of work" doesn't make sense. It's Present Perfect tense here, which means you need the construction "to have + past participle". More examples: I have

Now that you mention plastic what about "Lego, The Movie?" I reckon with some imaginative stop-motion animation it could be intriguing. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" suggests itself as a template. No, it will be live

*the slept man *a belonged wallet *a left guest *the gone people *the arrived women *a disappeared rabbit *a died geranium Hi CJ, I get our point. I have no argument about intransitive participles not being able to

I guess the question really boiled down to the classification of the P.P. I always treated them with a passive approach which may or may not conform to the grammarian rules. Unfortunately, as I see it at least, this thread is not about whether a

A native might be able to pull off this archaic construction for effect but I would advise any foreigner to steer well clear of it as to most listeners it will just sound like incorrect English. Amen. CJ

'Neither' and 'either' are singular and require singular verbs. However, sometimes, especially in interrogative constructions, 'neither' and 'either' can take a plural verb if followed by 'of'. Are either

King James' boys came up with "He is risen, as he said," In 1611 the perfect aspect was not established in English the way it is today. In modern translations they use "he has been raised". A native might be able to pull

Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

Hello everyone, Would anyone mind having a read through my answers below to see if i'm on the right tracks? I'm looking at the meaning/function and form of the sentence/underlined words! With many thanks!! Fiona is very