Hi Anon, BrE = British English.

1. Who keeps buying all the swords? OK. 2. I don't care who the guy roots for. OK 3. I haven't played that game yet. <--- why it is played OK, this is present perfect tense. "have" is the helping verb and it is followed by

Hi Anon: You can ask: What does it do? What is its function? How does it work? In English, you can make a statement with a helping verb: He works. --> He does work. "do" is a helping verb, and it agrees with the subject,

The version of English I'm used to does not permit this. I'm from California. I think that in our dialect, the only time you can make a contraction using "have" is when "have" is used as a helping verb. For example,

Hi Redalert, and welcome to English Forums. How Money Works -- This is a title. This is how money works. -- This is a sentence. Both are okay in the right conrext. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In

Which one of the following is correct and why? How money works. This is how money works. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In the sentence written above, is it ok to ommit the pronoun "I" and continue the

"is" doesn't seem to be a verb like (say) "runs" insofar as it isn't qualified by an adverb. If it's ... an adverb: = this food well is = this car well runs *Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,* 11th ed.,

< It seems to me that the meaning would depend upon the function of the word. To take another verb as an example of this principle, in "I think, therefore I am," the verb "am" is functioning as an intransitive verb, with the