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Jackson quote user Jackson6612 Do we need to say more Let me ask you few more questions In Will you come to my home today will is an auxiliary verbcome is main verbto my home is infinitive objecttoday is an adverbwill is still there when this interrogative statement is changed affirmative...

Maple wrote But this one seems correct Not far from there stood Edgar Snow the famous American author Hi MapleYou are right However note that just the word order is inverted and the usual grammatical interrogative structure is not used Cf Not only did he stand on a chair he also looked angry Not...

I always thought it was a remnant of the French Norman Invasion 1066 There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with to be rather than to have in the passé composé past tense Rise to be born arrive leave go all coming and going verbs are some examples We also sing He is risen and we allow...

I think you all are missing one thing it s the very basic question The definition of operator Up till now no one has defined what operators actually are Operators are verbs with special properties as explained in the article I cited for you above Some authors just call them auxiliary verbs but...

Hello Janissary 1 If a clause begins with a negative adverb inverted word order must usually be used with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be or the first auxiliary In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to be the...

Hello meg2589 and all I almost exclusively teach Spanish students with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we Spanish people find when studying English The first problem that...

I was recently presented with two sentences She already has her first client lined up and She has already lined up her first client The person who showed me these sentences was interested in how to classify the verbs which are auxiliary verbs and which objects go with which verbs Of course I am...