By Contractions, Modals

Jackson6612 wrote:1: I should not respect you. 2: Should I not respect you? 3: Shouldn't I respect you? The sentences 2 and 3 are the interrogatives made from the sentence 1. The sentence 3 is much more common than sentence 2. In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject...

Jackson6612 wrote:In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject following do, be, have, or a modal verb.The pronoun goes in the first possible position after do, be, have, or a modal verb. In a case where that verb is part of a contraction the first possible position is...

Argh! The adverb question again! Have you gone through this one yet? Post:258302 Here's a new take on the subject. If it doesn't appeal to you, toss it in the trash! Safe and typical practice: Use contracted forms wherever possible. Then place the adverb of frequency after the...

Paco2004 wrote: CalifJim wrote:"Can not" (two words) is never acceptable when the intent is to negate the modality.Sometimes we English learners from non-English speaking countries have to read historical documents like below. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that...

I see no grammatical form or semantic meaning in had have had, and googling (a mere 11,000 hits when I tried it) produces not one grammatically reputable webpage.I can envision I'd have had being misinterpreted as had have had by those who confuse had rather and would rather-- but those would...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got". ...