By Modal verbs, Present perfect

Hi, A:How is it different? Is the zero conditional and the second and third ones type 1? I think CalifJim told us that the modal 'can' counts as present. 1.If you can make money, please use the money to help people. 2. If you can make money, use money to help people. 3. If you can...

When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively and creative Christian work in the present world--not, as some suppose, for an escapist or quietist piety. Here, the word 'piety' seems to be uncountable, yet seems that the...

Hi, I gotthe following sentences from the ChristianToday magazne, a magazine of evangelical conviction, by N.T. Wright on March 25, 2008, and hope you would answer some questions on them. When we talk with biblical precision about the resurrection, we discover an excellent foundation for lively...

I saw that video on Google some time ago... it's weird! LOLMy cat can only say "meow". I tried to teach her some English, but she doesn't understand the present perfect and I don't know how make it clear to her. And she can't even understand the basic modal verbs! So I think I'll just let her say...

Thank you, all. Let me go back and correct what I have said. I think now that the underlined part is sort of a modal verb expressing the sense of the past. I think it was naive (and wrong) for me to have said that 'have had' part was a present perfect. That was the best salary I could have had...

I think the following would be considered a typical Type 3 Conditional. If I had studied hard in college, I would have become a successful person. Yes. This is a typical Type 3 conditional. If ... had ..., would have .... Here, I think would is a modal verb for a clause that...

Hi, I think the following would be considered a typical Type 3 Conditional. If I had studied hard in college, I would have become a successful person. Here, I think would is a modal verb for a clause that states the result of an imaginary situation that could have happened in the past, and it...

"Could" is the past form of the modal verb can. Modal verbs convey "mood" or idea. Unlike other verbs modals do not have continuous or perfect aspect (He is coulding / He has coulden). In the sentence "Yes, but you could have taken a taxi." could conveys the meaning of possibility (it was...

Thanks a lot again for all your help. "Would" seems to be the most confusing modal verb in English grammer and trying hard to learn the correct usages of this mysterious word . As Nona said. they might have used "Would have had to" to express the uncertainty, in that case, Can we use "had had...

Modal verbs don't have a strict assignation of time. You need to detect that from the context. Close to present perfect in your latest example. (I have dropped them/these things). Their modality is more important.