Terminology varies a little from country to country and ven from grammarian to grammarian. My opinion: Are gerunds verbs? No, but a gerund can take an object and may occur in the passive voice like a verb. I consider a gerund neither a verb nor a

He works hard - Work is the verb, simple enough! Has has worked hard all his life. The main verb is "worked" (in past participle form) but "has" (acts as a modal) now made the tense present perfect. So when you are

Bow? That's rather extravagant, don't you think? Next thing you know it'll be "bow and scrape"! CJ

I bow to MrM and Jim on the last example.

A past ability or skill A present ability or skill Speculation or deduction A future possibility Asking permission A prohibition A request Offer A refusal Can I eat my lunch here? 5 Can you cook a Sunday Roast?

Don't get distracted by what may happen later if things play out a certain way. I believe your problem is that you're concentrating on what the sentence is about, rather than how the actual modal verb (can/could/can't) functions in the

I'm unable to edit your page because of incompatibility problems. In my opinion, two of your "first choices" are correct, and five of your second choices are correct. (I believe there's only one correct answer for each

* Can I eat my lunch here? - 5 (To me it sounds that the person is asking for permission. -- Yes . But this could also be no.7, as the person could be making a request. Is there anyway to tell?-- I see no difference in meaning between 5 and 7 here

Hi there, I have been trying to work out 'Modal verb' in the sentences. Some sentencese were relatively straight forward, but that could be interpreted in more than one way. Thank you for all of your help. It is much appreciated. *My

Hi, I have been working on 'Future Functions,' and they were a little tricky. I have answered them all, but I need some help to clear some of these up. There is the possibility that I am using will and shall all wrong. Thanks for the