In Auxiliaries^x, Word order^x, Verbs^x

Hi Matt and welcome to English Forums I m not sure I agree with your lecturer In American English we rarely say I haven t time instead we say I don t have time but either way have is the main verb Could your lecturer possibly be thinking that breakfast is being used as a verb I haven t time TO...

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...

quote user Newguest Hi guys Why in this question we do not use did Who brought you up instead of Who did bring you up And in this one we do Who did you look up to instead of Who you looked up to quote Hi It has to do with the role of who Is it the subject as in Who brought you up or is it the...

quote user Rotter Om jag har pengar ska jag köpa en ny bil In Swedish the verb comes first in the main clause Swedish is like that If I have the money I will buy a new car quote Hi RotterYes of course there are differences in the word order but a similar auxiliary ska which is related to shall...

how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CAN Same rule With these negative polarity items like hardly and rarely invert subject and operator so that you have the same word order as you would use in a question For more on operators see also Post 245063 and Post 406973 CJ

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...

To use the auxiliary do to form questions and negative clauses is a phenomenon that is only about 400 years old Do existed in Old English but it meant to cause as in What caused the accident In Shakespeare s day do began to be used in questions and there were two ways to form a question You could...

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...