By Images, Present tenses

They won't smoke ever since they saw a film on lung cancer. What does "won't" mean here?

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Yoong Liat wrote:Hi GoodmanYou wrote: I have been labeled and called by many descriptions, hinted being “Ignorant” is the first ... I'm not hinting that you're ignorant. I say that if a learner tells me "informal" means "wrong", I'll understand that he says so because he is ignorant. But you...

Ok, I got it but I don't know how to put the link here so i'll just paste the context here. This was given by CalifJim as response to the subject "Conditional with Modal Verbs"... Strictly speaking, the modals are not tensed. However, they developed historically...

Hi Sonja, and welcome to the forums. I answered with this in the other post you made on the same topic. For future reference, if you ever forget to sign on and make a post, you just have a wait a bit for it to appear. Please don't sign in and then post the same question, or you'll have different...

Anonymous wrote:I realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. Is this correct? What should this be? Thanks! Hope this article helps ..... LANGUAGE CORNERLie, Lay, and All That Lie This to Rest? BY EVAN JENKINS No, of course not. But the confusion...

Hi, I went to a ceramic park yesterday. There are a lot of loess dolls at the park. Idon't know what a ceramic park is, nor what a loess doll is. Did you spell 'loess' correctly? I wrote about them. Could you read and correct them for me? Thank you very much. OK, I'll...

Do you think the Singapore Idol judges are being mean to the contestants? Yes, they are trying too hard to imitate Simon Cowell 46% 1577 votes Maybe, but the contestants deserved it 22% 754 votes Not at all, this is show business 32% 1093 votes Why...