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Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the complement...

Doll wrote: Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her...

Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her name before...

Miche wrote:Hi, JT. I can see you don't like rules much and I agree with you. Rules are too restrictive, hamper one's "feeling" the language and deprive him/her of the pleasure of speaking the language. That is a major problem with English learners in my country - they can recite mile-long lists...

Thanks for your kind explanation. The propositional verb has been a headache for me for so long. I wonder if you or anybody can tell me what is "dictionary form of the verb" and what is a phrasal verb. I was taught that "agree to do" is a phrase, but to me here "agree" and "do" both are verbs,...

<They are similar to other Germanic languages in structure and as there are only two infinitives in English (and in Swedish, for that matter), the modals or defective auxiliaries are very easy and simple to learn. They have no inflections for different grammatical persons, which is also...

Forbes wrote:Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no grammar...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Americans use "talk" or "speak" with. Instead, English people use the preposition "to" after these two verbs. On the phone I would say: "May I speak to Mary, please?" or "Could I speak to Mary, please?". "Could" and "May" are more polite. "Give me Mary" is too rude.

Hi. Please tell me the difference. What will you do tomorrow? What would you do tomorrow? To me, the second sentence carries the notion of asking for his willingness to do something; whereas the first one seems to be asking straight forwardly (adverb?? OK) the question of what he will do...