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Mary Ansell s on line text English Grammar Explanations and Exercises explains some of the differences among these auxiliaries 3 Can and Could The modal auxiliary can is most often used in the Simple conjugation The most important meaning of can and could is to be able to e g He can walk thirty...

Hi This is my first post in this forum which I have found to be a tremendous resource for problems with English grammar Here comes my own question Earlier today I realized that in the case of certain composite expressions you would rather say more politically palatable than politically more...

Rho Ok this is obvious you are not being honest and sincere You are intentionally playing dumb You seem to be convinced that I have some source which I am not divulging I have presented examples and given various explanations If you still want to antagonize someone email about com These type of...

Hello Roro I m now in my office and so I can t log in by my own ID Why am I frustrated I feel the use of bare NPs as temporal adverbials is a linguistic phenomenon common to many languages But no English grammar book gives us this sort of information in a detail enough to make us use them freely...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs They are called adverbial objectives From the standpoint of word order an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb This sort of constructs comes from an Old...

Well when you see the home page you see a lot of sections eg here General English grammar question is for when you have problems with the grammar Vocabulary and idioms when you don t understand a word or an expression and so on Now when you click on the section you have a page sowing all the...

Hello everyone In working with my own people still I am not an exception allowing myself to judge what is right or what is not right in English grammar and idiomatic expression I felt this sentence bit awkward or strange but it s rather my perception wrong The sentence reads When a study subject...

Hello Mr P You and Marv have talked a lot about When I was in school teachers taught us to use with a statement in subjunctive mood Indeed Fowler wrote so in his The King s English a century ago and still now OED seems to defy any use of But language changes with time and so the Some English...

Munchun I am just wondering if JTT has his own rules towards that English grammar I really hope I could see a totally different view point from JTT JT No I don t have my own personal set of English grammar rules Munchun What I describe is how English actually works Your confusion comes from...

Hello People One of my English grammar books written in Japanese says about as including concessive adverbial clauses as follows Construction ad adv v as they are all literal expressions and rarely used in speech 1 Old as he is his step is as steady as ever 2 Big as the boy was he couldn t lift...