In Invitations^x, Clauses^x

Hi,How could a person use the modal "would" correctly? I think the uses of it can be said to be in the categories of "request", "invitation", "conditional" and others. What I have most trouble is the conditional use of the modal "would". Would you...

Hoa Thai wrote:Let's take a look at another sentence:John likes to hunt, skydive, and play tennis at a small club in his neighborhood everyday. Hi Hoa, I'm assuming by "context sensitive" you mean the construction of the sentence alone cannot determine which modifiers go with which gerunds,...

Avangi wrote: Liveinjapan wrote: The Earth is being harmed ,and this harms people as well. Is the first clause a passive form or 'being harmed' is a compliment of 'The Earth'? ThanksLiJ Hello again, LiJ, Please forgive me for beating a dead horse(It's good to know), but I just noticed...

Liveinjapan wrote: The Earth is being harmed ,and this harms people as well. Is the first clause a passive form or 'being harmed' is a compliment of 'The Earth'? ThanksLiJ Hello again, LiJ, Please forgive me for beating a dead horse, but I just noticed the invitation in your...

Mister Micawber wrote:Whoever, as the subject of the verb may come, takes grammatical priority. The whole clause is the object of the preposition, to. Does a little bit of alteration change the choice Micawber? as in : I'll send these invitation cards to whomever/whoever the party was...

Sir, IV - The present prefect used with "for" and "since" A. "for" is used with a period of time: for six days, for a long time. "for" is used with the simple past tense denotes a terminated period of time. (e.g) We lived there for ten years. ( but we don't live there now) "for"...

Paco, I read your Split Infinitive offering. Very interesting. The Star Trek example floored me! "to boldly go" was regarded as the best version. "to go boldly" did not have the fluid feel of the original??? What fluid feel? It sounds positively clunky to me! I agreed that "boldly to go"...