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Inchoateknowledge wrote:What does (simple) future tense mean in this sentence? The grammarian (it is a grammarian, isn't it?) you're quoting would probably tell you that there is no future tense. Many linguists claim English has only two tenses: Past and Non-past (sometimes called present)....

One such grammatical distinction causing much confusion is the use of the modal auxiliaries ‘may’ and ‘might’. When used in the present tense, the two modals are almost transposable, as the difference between the two is merely a very small degree of certainty. However, it has become common...

to be allowed to is a semi auxiliary, and the modal is an auxiliary ( modal auxiliary) to be allowed to expresses modal or aspectual meaning.

About modal auxiliaries .... Do we have some equivalent in Spanish ? how can I learn them ? is there any trick to know the answer ?

Yoong Liat wrote: Anonymous wrote: What is the method to speak fluent english? someone said the grammer is correct,but people may don't know what i want to ask?why? thanks What is the method to speak fluent English? Someone said the grammer ( should be 'grammar') is correct, but people...

Mister Micawber wrote:they carry little if any social stigma within the South and are used by speakers of all social classes and educational levels—even in formal instances like political addresses.This is untrue. The use of paired modals in the South (the land of my birth) remains the province...

Our Living Language In many Southern U.S. varieties of English, might can be paired with other auxiliary verbs such as could, as in We might could park over there. Words like might and could are known as modals, since they express certain “moods” (for example, I might go indicates an uncertain...

You may want to read what Professor Lawler said elsewhere: -------------- >"I should go." "I ought to go." >Is there any difference ? >(Needless to say I'm not a native English speaker.) There isn't much difference. "Ought" is the old past participle of "to owe", which shows...

need + infinitive (need is a full verb) need to + infinitive (need is a modal auxiliary) -----------------------------------------------

Hiya GB ! Well I asked myself a similar question sometime ago... I think the answer is that the verb 'to need' also works as a modal auxiliary.So for instance you can say "oh please, you needn't bother" which is obviously a case of using it as an auxiliary ; whereas it could also be used as a...