By English grammar, Modal verbs

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms. a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could tell...

In much of the talk about English grammar you will find discussions of modals or discussions of modal verbs. These are the same thing. CJ

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute:1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

When we talk about a subjunctive construction, I think it is easier to understand it without the 'inserted clause, I would think' becasue that way one can clearly see the cause-and-effect relationship beteween the conditional clause and the main clasue. 1. If someone tells you that you may...

If we use passive voice, we don't have to change it in reported speech. Am I right? JTT: That's right. Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don't do always the tense backshift in direct-to-indirect speech conversion. But I don't take it as that those books are saying...

Paco: I have already answered this question to you. I wrote here: Paco, there is not any English Grammar book, or other book from which I've taken my feeling that we don't have to change the passive when we're using reported speech. I just believed that, and in that way I always post this...

Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the usage of the present progressive tense. JTT: I...

Paco: Thank for your answers. The same to JTT. I promise not more questions about passive and reported speech. Now I think I get it. Paco, there is not any English Grammar book, or other book from which I've taken my feeling that we don't have to change the passive when we're using reported...

Hello This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations. My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods (indicative/subjunctive) and two...

i need to know where can i find english grammar rules! i shoudl write a work "modal verbs: can & may in the function of permission"!!!)