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Re: The Continuous tense

Tanit — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:52:57 GMT

Anonymous
Is it a rule that the auxiliary, the past participle and the main verb are immediately after one another with no other words inbetween?

No, such a rule does not exist.

Anonymous
For example: "Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?"
This sentence has both "have" and "had" and two continuous verbs in it ("feeling" and "being"), but is it neither Present Perfect Continuous nor Past Perfect Continuous?

Your sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ..."
"the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they are perfect synonym for "feeling" -- it's just to demonstrate that you can have a noun there, and to show you that "feeling" is not acting as a verb in your sentence). Another clue to understand its function is that it's preceded by the article "the".
"that you're being followed" this is a "that-clause" which describes what sort of "feeling" we are talking about. "being" here has to be seen together with "are" and "followed": "are being followed" is present continuous, passive.

Re: Conditional:Auxiliary Commentary Words?

Mister Micawber — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:26:02 GMT

You wrote this as your partical response to the overall question:
I think that the "good morning's" are inappropriate.-- No
I think his "how are you's" are inappropriate. -- No. His "how are you"s are inappropriate. I don't think we need the "?".

Your technique (if I can call it that) is new to me. Anyway, how do you make distinctions as to which phrase/clause is appropriate to put an "s" after putting quotation marks around it: why not "good morning" but "how are you"?

I don't understand your question. The '-s' goes outside the quotation marks, as I indicated in both italicized sentences.

And I wrote this:
Thank you. So if the word is specifically referenced to by context, we should use the definite article to indicate specifcity of it like you did with the noun 'power'. Is that right?

-- Yes again.

The problem I have is that it is hard to distinguish situations where the detinite noun is necessary

-- It takes some practice.

We value freedom of press.
Order for proclamation of the King's Peace

In the two examples above I feel can use the detinite noun and not use it with little difference, if at all.

-- As they stand, the first should have no article and the second should: freedom of the press is a general freedom, but the King is a specific king. That at least is the presumption that the reader should make.

I thin the same goes to the original sentences with the word 'power' except you are very sure the reference it to a specific group of people and situation needs to be specific, but I feel, in most wriiting situations in the real world, don't need the definiteness brought by having placed 'the' before the likes of the word 'power'.

-- I agree that there is often an option; nevertheless, in your sentence, a specific power source is implied-- i.e the power supplied at where 'they' are.
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Re: Conditional:Auxiliary Commentary Words?

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:16:11 GMT

THANK YOU.

You wrote:

I think they are unaffected, but I think also that the 'would's are incorrect:

If the power goes out, I dare to think that they will all leave.
If the power goes out, I bet they will all leave.
If the power goes out, I am sure that they will all leave.
If the power goes out, I bet that they will all leave.

And I wrote this:
Thank you. So if the word is specifically referenced to by context, we should use the definite article to indicate specifcity of it like you did with the noun 'power'. Is that right?

And to that, I think you said 'yes'.

The problem I have is that it is hard to distinguish situations where the detinite noun is necessary (as it seems) since some words like 'freedom' and 'proclamation' and possibly 'power' have what I can say a capacity to dwell and function well in both specifically referenced and non-specifically referenced situations like this:

We value freedom of press.

This one I picked out from the google book search:

Order for proclamation o fthe King's Peace

Two examples above I feel can use the detinite noun and not use it with little difference, if at all.

I thin the same goes to the original sentences with the word 'power' except you are very sure the reference it to a specific group of people and situation needs to be specific, but I feel, in most wriiting situations in the real world, don't need the definiteness brought by having placed 'the' before the likes of the word 'power'.

So, in most cases, I feel the version without the 'the's is good.

If power goes out, I dare ...

Re: Conditional:Auxiliary Commentary Words?

Mister Micawber — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:44:18 GMT

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Thank you. So if the word is specifically referenced to by context, we should use the definite article to indicate specifcity of it like you did with the noun 'power'. Is that right?-- Yes

You wrote this as an introducing part (if that is phrased right) to the examples:
I think they are unaffected, but I think also that the 'would's are incorrect:

I have hard time finding out how to pluralize words like"'would" or 'how are you?"You seemed to have attach an 's' after putting the word "would" in the quotation marks. Is it how it should be done? --Yes. I used single quote marks; double marks are more formally correct.

How about this? I think they are unaffected, but I think also that the "would's" are incorrect-- No

How about these?

I think that the '"do's and don'ts" are inappropriate to the situation.-- Yes. Do's and don'ts is an idiom. (Notice that for clarity we do not use a second apostrophe in "don't's")
I think that the "good morning's" are inappropriate.-- No
I think his "how are you's" are inappropriate. -- No. His "how are you"s are inappropriate. I don't think we need the "?".

Re: Conditional:Auxiliary Commentary Words?

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:21:32 GMT

Thank you. So if the word is specifically referenced to by context, we should use the definite article to indicate specifcity of it like you did with the noun 'power'. Is that right?

You wrote this as an introducing part (if that is phrased right) to the examples:
I think they are unaffected, but I think also that the 'would's are incorrect:

I have hard time finding out how to pluralize words like"'would" or 'how are you?"You seemed to have attach an 's' after putting the word "would" in the quotation marks. Is it how it should be done? How about this?

I think they are unaffected, but I think also that the "would's" are incorrect:

How about these?

I think that the '"do's and don'ts" are inappropriate to the situation.
I think that the "good morinng's" are inappropriate.
I think his "how are you's" are inappropriate. -- this seems to be a difficult one since I feel "how are you" should have a question mark at the end and it is difficult to know what to do with the mark.

Re: I am looking forward to (meet / meeting)? you

Mister Micawber — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:10:39 GMT

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I think you misunderstood. Have to + infinitive: I have to study; We have to speak English. 'Have (got) to' is classified as a semi-auxiliary verb, and 'to', I believe, is called an infinitive particle'.

Re: "Everything have to go!" ...or... "Everything has to go!"

Clive — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:58:35 GMT

Hi,

Dailymail wrote... "Kerry Katona stuffs her face with a burger and Coke"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1023053/Kerry-Katona-stuffs-face-burger-Coke--resorts-sucking-belly.html

The Register wrote... "MetaRAM double stuffs servers with memory"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/weber_metaram/

The ABC wrote... "Stereotype stuffs up women's driving"

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/24/2197632.htm

Now I'm sure the meaning of "stuffs" is different here, but... a wrong word??? As pointed out earlier, 'stiffs' is a valid form of the verb 'stuff'. The above examples involve verbs.

On to the next subject.

The Florida Institute of Technology wrote this...

"When you have a will, doesn't everything have to go through the courts in a public way?" 'Have' here is the bare infinitive verb form.

Everything does have to go through the courts. (correct, with singular form of the auxiliary verb 'do')
Everything do have to go through the courts. (incorrect, with plural form of the auxiliary verb 'do')

http://www.fit.edu/support/planned.html

And the government of Australia wrote this...

"Accordingly, so long as a defect can be remedied by amendment, the informations are not âvoidâ in the sense that..." 'Informations' here seems like a technical, legal word, almost a form of legal jargon. Use it if you're a lawyer, particularly in Australia.

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Supreme_Court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_howie020807

Best wishes, Clive

Verbs

ganesh77 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:38:41 GMT

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed.

1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals)

2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in continuous tenses) i.e. eat, run, talk

3 state of being verbs; existence verbs; state verbs; stative verbs; static verbs (a verb which describes a state and is not usually used in a continuous tense) i.e. be, own, know

4 regular verbs (a verb that has four forms and follows the normal rules)

5 irregular verbs; strong verbs (a verb not following the normal rules for inflection)

6 auxiliary and modal verbs (which make up verbal phrases) â 23 in total

7 linking verbs; copulative verbs; copulas (a verb which links the subject and complement of a clause) i.e. It is warm today.

8 transitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that involves more than one person or thing, and so is followed by an object) i.e. Sheâs wasting her money.

9 intransitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that only involved the subject and so has no object) i.e. She arrived.

10 multiword verbs

a type 1 â intransitive [phrasal verbs; adverb particle

b type 2 â transitive (inseparable) [prepositional verbs; preposition particles]

c type 3 â transitive (separable) [phrasal verbs; adverb particle]

d type 4 â transitive (with two inseparable particles) [phrasal-prepositional verbs; first particle is an adverb, second particle is a preposition]

11 compound verbs

12 delexical verbs (a verb which has very little meaning in itself but is used with an object to describe an action) i.e. She gave a small cry.

13 ditransitive verbs (a verb which can have both a direct and indirect object) i.e. She gave me a kiss.

14 ergative verbs (a verb which can be used transitively to focus on the performer of the action, or intransitively to focus on the thing affected by the action) i.e. He boiled the water. The water boiled.

15 reporting verbs; performance verbs; performative verbs (a verb used with a quote or a reported clause to describe what people say or think) i.e. suggest, say, wonder

16 reciprocal verbs (a verb which describes an action involving two people doing the same thing to each other) i.e. They met in the street.

17 reflexive verbs (a verb which is typically used with a reflexive pronoun) i.e. Donât cut yourself with that knife.

18 defective verbs (a verb without all the inflected forms of a regular verb) i.e. modals

19 finite and non-finite

a infinitives

b gerunds; verbal nouns

c participles

20 catenative verbs (a verb that takes other verb forms as objects; found at the head of a series of linked constructions) i.e. We agreed to try to decide to stop eating snacks.

21 causative verbs (a verb that designates the action necessary to cause another action to happen) i.e. The devil made me do it.

Re: need help from grammar experts

Mister Micawber — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:17:27 GMT

In(prep) the (article-- a kind of adjective) marshy(adj) mists(noun) of(prep) a (article-- a kind of adjective) deserted (adjective--it modifies 'churchyard') village(adj) churchyard(noun), a (adj) shivering(adj), limping(adj) convict(noun) on (prep) the (adj) run (noun) suddenly(adv) terrifies(verb) Pip(noun), a (adj) tiny(adj) orphan(noun used as an adjective) boy(noun). Years (noun) later (adverb) , a (adj) supremely(adv) arrogant(adj) young(adj) Pip(noun) boards(verb) the(adj) coach(noun) to(prep) London(noun) where (adverb used as a conjunction), by (prep) the (adj) grace(noun) of(prep) a (adj) mysterious(adj) benefactor(noun), he(pronoun) will(auxiliary verb) eagerly(adv) join(verb) the (adj) ranks(noun) of (prep) the (adj) idle(adj) rich(pronoun, or adjective used as a noun) and become(verb) a (adj) gentleman(noun).

May God bless you

victorycountry — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:47:43 GMT

Hi,

Most of the time, I use the auxiliary verb 'may' to say something more politely.

However, when you read articles on 'christianity' or the bible, I often find many scriptures saying with 'may'.

It sounds like it's got a meaning of 'hope' or 'wish'.

Example:

May God bless you

What's the meaning of 'may' here, I wonder ?

I kind of understand the meaning of the sentence, however, even so, I don't know how to use the 'may' to make such a sentence.

Does it make sense? Well, I hope so.

Thanks in advance.