In Conditionals^x, Verbs^x, Gerunds^x

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

DouglasM6 wrote:So, is it true that we have a rule here: only one present participle per clause equivalent ??? Thanks for all your input. Doug Hi DougWe certainly can't use more than one participle for one clause equivalent. In your sentence, however, we encounter a problem because we would...

Just one more thing before I go: conditionals are not considered real past tenses, so Milky's assertion, according to which must can not be in past negative, has not legs. Must not have contained is a past participle verb phrase, and in the context it means the words: participle, gerund......

Alienvoord wrote:I'm a native speaker. I'd say that a verbal is a noun or adjective that is derived from a verb. All 3 sentences sound fine to me. milky: "All of those are incorrect." how's that? What would you say verbals are if you were allowed to say only one sentence and this...

Siggy wrote:I would suggest that (a) the first sentence is better with the word "your" being correct and (b) changing the "will" to "would" inproves things. My guess is that the sentence as a whole is intended as a request and is conditional on a response. If something is conditional, the...

I would suggest that (a) the first sentence is better with the word "your" being correct and (b) changing the "will" to "would" inproves things. My guess is that the sentence as a whole is intended as a request and is conditional on a response. If something is conditional, the...

1) Do May / Might NOT (like CANNOT) express an interdiction = must not ? ex: ? CJ

Thank you very much, CJ, for your answers! Some more questions if you wouldn't mind: 1) Do May / Might NOT (like CANNOT) express an interdiction = must not ? ex: ? 2) Mrs James is in hospital and HASN’T BEEN ALLOWED TO have (and NOT “could have”) a cigarette after her meals. (correct ?) 3)...

Hello, Mr Pedantic. May I call you Mr P? Of course you may, JTT. {Please don't ever take my direct manner in these discussions as any type of personal attack. I only want to address the facts. If I believe you or anyone to be in err, I'll plainly say so and I hope you and others will do the same...