In Dialects^x, Modals^x, Difference between^x

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

Milky wrote: Then again: Have to in They have to be in Rome for a meeting tomorrow is also an example of this subject-oriented modality, which is called dynamic modality. Dynamic modality plays an important part in considerations of have to , and its contrast with must . ...

<I have to say (or I must say!), I am astonished at this conversation. I do not, for one moment, stop to consider whether there are external or internal factors involved before I say "I must do X" or "I have to do X." And I certainly do not do this kind of analysis if someone says it to...

Then again: Have to in They have to be in Rome for a meeting tomorrow is also an example of this subject-oriented modality, which is called dynamic modality. Dynamic modality plays an important part in considerations of have to , and its contrast with must . Epistemically, there seems to...