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Linguists often consider endings when determining the number of tenses in a language. The English verb can only take two forms from the viewpoint of tense endings: present: talk s and past: talk ed . The future is formed by adding an extra verb (the modal verb will ) in front of the...

In the early Church , Christians would celebrate the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ (known as the saint's "birth day") by serving an All-Night Vigil , and then celebrating the Eucharist over their tomb or place of martyrdom. In the fourth century, neighbouring dioceses began to...

PASTEL wrote: MrP! How are you? I'm glad to see you again. Wow, how long did it take you to squeeze those examples? If I read it more than twice, I'm going to faint to the ground. I assure you, I will. I have a new question. Ready?! Tim ____ early before he reaches...

Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the usage of the present progressive tense. JTT:...

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20050311_190923_1488 1. James says if the NDP gets elected in the spring, she would increase the number of residencies for foreign trained doctors to 25 annually. (Is this a conditional wiht a modal verb? Is the modal verb acting as a...

JTT: "The possibility started yesterday. It therefore started in the past." But it has not come to fruition. It can have no past tense because nothing has past, ie. nothing has finished. How curious. A possibility has no past? Maybe I misremembered the conversation with Casi: ...

You and your classmate don't seem to have any standard by which both of you agree to measure influence. Will it be the number of words related to each? Will it be the most frequently used words? The most frequently used words in everyday conversation? The most frequently used words in formal...

Only number 1 is correct. The main verb (the one that comes after the modal verb--will, would, could, can, etc.) is always in the infinitive (without "to"). Regarding to your second question, you must use a participle form of the verb to make compound tenses and not it's past tense form, as...