In Conditionals^x, Tenses^x, Auxiliaries^x

Hi CB,What is defective/modal auxiliary verb?Sorry for asking you too many questions. I hope you will give a touch to all the above questions.Thanks,Jackson

To my home has nothing to do with verbs. To is a preposition here. An answer to your last question is given in a previous post: "The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in present-tense questions, negations, and conditional clauses." In other words, auxiliary need is normally...

Jackson:#1 "do" is a verb. (auxiliary) not an adverb. "need" is the main verb; the object is the infinitive phrase..("need to" is synonymous with "have to")#2 say is the main verb, Need is an auxiliary verb. Like the auxiliaries can or may, it does not...

Hi RotterI can't believe you are having problems with conditional sentences. Swedish and English are so closely related that the auxiliaries, infinitives and tenses are used in exactly the same way in both languages:I would weigh = jag skulle vägaif I started = om jag börjadeCheersCB

English is ambiguous enough for it to refer to the past or the future depending on the context. Succeeded can be an indicative past tense or a subjunctive and would can be a past tense meaning "used to" or an auxiliary of the present conditional.CB

First conditional: When you're gone, I'll miss you. Not correct. Try "If you (are to) go, I’ll miss you."Zero conditional: When you're gone, I miss you. OK Is ARE present simple in both phrases? It is. See bracketed version. Because in the first conditional, it's strange to think...

I think the following would be considered a typical Type 3 Conditional. If I had studied hard in college, I would have become a successful person. Yes. This is a typical Type 3 conditional. If ... had ..., would have .... Here, I think would is a modal verb for a clause that...

Peaceblinkfriend wrote:Hi,If I hadn't passed my exam, I wouldn't have gone to Cancun. = This is a conditional clause and in this instance, it is being used to talk about something that might have happened in the past, but did not in fact happen. In this sort of conditional clause, you use the...

Pastsimple wrote: Maple wrote: Which principles have been violated by those three poor sentences? I especially don't like the "must not have contained" part. The sentences strike me as odd and unnatural. Here is a dollar, I don't have 2 cents….I think Inchoateknowledge may have applied...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood' for...