By Auxiliaries, Numbers

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

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Kilimanjaro wrote: Hello Cool Breeze, This sentence is taken from Michael SWAN's Practical English Usage. He says "might" can be used in such contextsHi KilimanjaroYes, I know it's from that book. You mentioned it in a previous post. I didn't say it was right or wrong in my opinion. I said I...

Milky wrote:He has to go and He must go.> Well, I guess that would be part of the mastering part of the language - i.e. the complex part. It's easy for anyone to claim that English is not complex, or is much simpler than many other languages, if he/she avoids talking about mastering the...

Milky wrote:<To my mind, the articles are the trickiest part of English grammar> And modals?They are similar to other Germanic languages in structure and as there are only two infinitives in English (and in Swedish, for that matter), the modals or defective auxiliaries are very easy and...

Milky wrote: "I'd like to can swim" is ungrammatical. In English, modal auxiliaries like can and must are disallowed in infinitival clauses." That is a statement that is true of any variety of English with which I am familiar. Prescriptivists and descriptivists are often going to agree that...

Goodman wrote:... I was looking at it as a conditional. So was I, Goodman. But your suggestion was to write a so-called "mixed conditional" (a mix of type 2 and type 3). Number 8: First sentence: "We might win" = a reference to a theoretically possible future event Second sentence:...

Yankee wrote:Hi GoodmanThe last two sentences in number 7 refer to the future. If you used the word had in the second sentence, then the third sentence would have to be changed to "It would have been wonderful if you had gotten it."Number 8 also refers to the future, so "had won" is not possible...