By Modals, Modal verbs

Hi again,I think you guys are right. maybe now I understand. I just read some stuff on the net about negative questions, plus one of Jim's posts, and this "idea" I had seems the right one: Kooyeen wrote:Idea! Maybe that only works with modals and with requests, not permissions? So couldn't you,...

Hi Pres1dentYou should break up long posts such as this one into several short posts. That way it's much easier for other people to comment.I've made suggestions. Some of the sentences in these exercises don't sound terribly natural, so there are also suggestions in places where there were no...

Hello! My mother is studying in University. She was given this testing. I've solved this English testing for her but I'm not sure if it is alright. Could you check it? Sorry, it's quite long. I. Grammar Exercises 1 Articles 1. *The* equipment of Blake & Co is very good. They sell it to **...

Linguists often consider endings when determining the number of tenses in a language. The English verb can only take two forms from the viewpoint of tense endings: present: talks and past: talked. The future is formed by adding an extra verb (the modal verb will) in front of the verb --...

Any time you use a so that clause to explain why some action was taken, to explain the intent of the action, use will (or some other modal verb with a present viewpoint) if the main clause is in the present, and use would (or some other modal verb with a past viewpoint) if the main clause is in...

Yankee wrote:Yes, Taka, that's how I see it. Thank you, Amy! Marius Hancu wrote:I see where Yankee's coming from and there's some argument for it, but the would at the end of the sentence is decisive, IMO: it's subjunctive because it's a hypothetical situation: MH,For your information: ...

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi JacksonThe Sentences 2 and 3 are the interrogatives made from the sentence 1. The Sentence 3 is much more common than sentence 2. In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject following 'do', 'be', 'have' or a modal verb. That means sentence 2 is...

Hi JacksonThe Sentences 2 and 3 are the interrogatives made from the sentence 1. The Sentence 3 is much more common than sentence 2. In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject following 'do', 'be', 'have' or a modal verb. That means sentence 2 is grammatically...

Jackson6612 wrote:1: I should not respect you. 2: Should I not respect you? 3: Shouldn't I respect you? The sentences 2 and 3 are the interrogatives made from the sentence 1. The sentence 3 is much more common than sentence 2. In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject...

Jackson6612 wrote:In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject following do, be, have, or a modal verb.The pronoun goes in the first possible position after do, be, have, or a modal verb. In a case where that verb is part of a contraction the first possible position is...