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There are none. The modals have no past participle, and there is no verb construction in English requiring them.
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Concentrate on writing sensible questions. Learn the pattern and construction from the answers given to you and build on it. Don't try to be creative and start your own brand of English. I mean it in a positive way. Ok, for
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I still have trouble with this kind of construction s , You cannot have would had . Impossible. The only form of have which can directly follow a modal verb is have , never has, had, or having . These are the correct combinations: can have,
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Mr. Torres-Rivero: As the other ladies and gentlemen have suggested, No. 1 is the usual construction. Nevertheless, your No. 2 may be almost correct, too. I found this example in Professor Quirk's A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH
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Mr. Torres-Rivero: As the other ladies and gentlemen have suggested, No. 1 is the usual construction. Nevertheless, your No. 2 may be almost correct, too. I found this example in Professor Quirk's A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH
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Hi English offers the possibility to work around the problem of having to use awkward constructions such as 'he or she' or 'his and hers'. For example, instead of saying that Someone has left his or her car on the sidewalk , you
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I´m afraid it IS wrong. "Spend time" can only be used in verb + gerund constructions or with further adverbial phrases. It´s a rule (it may change in the future, but for the moment, it sounds very wrong to a native ear any other way). It
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Hello. I often use that type of construction. Where I live, we don't generally use 'me' - though I have heard that being used down in England - we use 'us' in both singular and plural cases. It doesn't really add any extra
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Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,
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Until a better informed person answers, I hope this will be helpful: (1) Most causative verbs (order, cause, force, get, etc.) take TO. (2) Two big exceptions are "make" and "have" (3) Two popular but non-causative verbs
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