Hello everyone, Would anyone mind having a read through my answers below to see if i'm on the right tracks? I'm looking at the meaning/function and form of the sentence/underlined words! With many thanks!! Fiona is very

They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have

I found a website that could help you. I'll quote part of it for you: "May/might is an example of a modal auxiliary verb. The distinction between may and might has to do with the tense (present, past etc.) and/ or mood (indicative/

Milky wrote: He has to go and He must go.> Well, I guess that would be part of the mastering part of the language - i.e. the complex part. It's easy for anyone to claim that English is not complex, or is much simpler than many other

Matthew Huntbach (Email Removed): I introduced it, and I am from Sussex, not Yorkshire. "By then" indicating a point in time, followed by "would" and the present tense Grammatically, the part following the `would' (a modal

Inchoateknowledge wrote: What does (simple) future tense mean in this sentence? The grammarian (it is a grammarian, isn't it?) you're quoting would probably tell you that there is no future tense. Many linguists claim English has only two

One such grammatical distinction causing much confusion is the use of the modal auxiliaries ‘may’ and ‘might’. When used in the present tense, the two modals are almost transposable, as the difference between the two is merely a very small degree

: When he returns to Manhattan 1000 years later, it has been destroyed and rebuilt three times. 2

Hi milky. (Have you given up our discussion on modal auxiliaries?) Tense is used for more than just time I think it's a good point. Quine once said: Our ordinary language shows a tiresome bias in its treatment of time. Relations of