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Hi everybody I strongly disagree with the views mentioned on behalf of the Callan Method Just because it promises to get the student where he or she wants to doesn t mean the Method deserves criticism I ve been teaching English both the traditional way and the Callan Method way for about a year...

Ellisa This is a very long passage and your other post seems to be even longer The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages Also many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post If you post only one paragraph at a time then different...

Hi everyone I m studying modals recently I have a doubt about ought to be doing My grammar book says ought to be doing means someone is not doing what he she is supposed to do in an affirmative sentence or someone is doing what he she isn t supposed to do in an negative sentence For example He...

What s the past of could Aarrgghh could is a past form already There are two series of forms to consider with modals The interactions and combinations are the subject of entire books So in a way a modal like may has two pasts might and may have To make things even more complicated most modals...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the changes This was meant to be just a game not for those wo take everything seriously and of course in this game everybody...

Inchoateknowledge wrote there are some oddities I have just dug up in a grammar book and in which you might be interested Marginal modal auxiliaries used to ought to need dareused to He usedn t to smoke He did not use to smoke He used to drink did he not Did he use to drink ought to Ought I to...

there are some oddities I have just dug up in a grammar book and in which you might be interested Marginal modal auxiliaries used to ought to need dare used to He usedn t to smoke He did not use to smoke He used to drink did he not Did he use to drink ought to Ought I to stop smoking Yes you...

we use must when the speaker decides it is necessary have to suggests that someone else or some outside circumstances or authority makes something necessary compare I have to see the head teacher she has called me to her office I must see the head teacher I want to discuss something with her need...

Thank you Taka for your response The reason for my question is this I believe that something you wrote was possibly semantically inappropriate for the situation I viewed it as a valuable teaching moment and I hope you ll view it in the same manner You said Isn t it possible to take that wild as...

Dear CJ Do you think the deontic modal is marked stylistic too I asked if I might sit beside the mayor Not as marked as the dynamic ones but not as neutral as the epistemic ones Deontic modals apply modality in the context of the law of the world in question So in your sentence the modal still...