By Modals, Modal auxiliaries

Pieanne wrote: 1. Yes, you can use both, but will be willing is placed in the future (at some moment in the future), whereas are willing is in the present, now. 2. "Will be will" is not correct. "Will" is a modal auxiliary, not an adjective, you can't use it that way. I would also add that...

1. Yes, you can use both, but will be willing is placed in the future (at some moment in the future), whereas are willing is in the present, now. 2. "Will be will" is not correct. "Will" is a modal auxiliary, not an adjective, you can't use it that way.

Anonymous wrote:I have seen similar putative sentences. "I am suprised that he should feel lonely."(1) "I am suprised that he feels lonely." I don't remember the exact sentences in Quirk's "A Comprehensive English Grammar". I wonder if the first sentence can be written as "I will be suprised...

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark. This is fine. It’s the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple 2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark. This would work as the second conditional if you replaced ‘must’ with ‘would’. In such a case, the...

Hello Anon"Let" is one of causative verbs that take the construct of Pieanne, I think we had better not to take "let" as a modal auxiliary, because we can say like "You can let your son play in the backyard".

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

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....

1) My little brother would not turn down the radio volume in the morning. MY = possessive adjective LITTLE = DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVE BROTHER = noun WOULD = modal auxiliary NOT = NEGATIVE PARTICLE TURN = main verb DOWN = adverb particle THE = definite article RADIO = noun (used as an...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood' for...

I can only add a little toward the answers to your questions. In general the modal auxiliaries are used to express not statements of fact but actions or events that exist only as conceptions of the mind -- possibilities, potentialities, necessities, wishes, whatever may or may not eventuate...