By Auxiliaries, Universities

Milky wrote: "Especially, in many countries now, the learning of English is not based on the student's decision or will but on their 'duty'. In an EFL context, students basically have no choice but to learn English as their second language." Hm. But they also don't have any choice about...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:The main verb be and have are operators when they are the only verb in the verb phrase. I am singing a song. I do not think it is difficult to conlude from the definitions. am is not an operator, still less it is singing am here is an auxiliary verb, and not an...

I've just flipped through Quirk's "University Grammar of English" and it says that 'be' acts as an operator whether it is an auxiliary or not. That means that what I wrote above is not true. Sorry for the mess.

1. Use of present perfect tense and simple past tense Speakers of American English generally use the present perfect tense (have/has + past participle) far less than speakers of British English. In spoken American English it is very common to use the simple past tense as an alternative in...

Ok, sonimu, let's go with those mistakes. You can translate 'ya decia yo' as 'I thought so' because you're implying that you knew something beforehand. Instead of 'I had inherited', I'd say 'I have inherited' because it relates to the present somehow. You have inherited your love for languages...