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<I'm not sure where you're coming from with "have to.">< ?? Have to" is a, relatively, ages-old semi-modal auxiliary. It's used by children and adults alike.

Could you please, check if the answers given for each sentence are correct? 1) I think he is Irish. * I am not sure . Here when I say “ I think he is Irish ”, it’s my deduction . So If I had to replace it by a modal auxiliary I would use must .O.K.? But...

Hi everybody, I strongly disagree with the views mentioned on behalf of the Callan Method. Just because it promises to get the student where he or she wants to, doesn't mean the Method deserves criticism. I've been teaching English both the traditional way and the Callan Method way for...

Aside: Americans, does this comment vex you? "The 'Americanization' of British English is suggested by the modal auxiliary profiles: here British English appears to follow American English, where the decline of modals is further advanced both in the 1961 and the 1991 data. In...

I answered this question i just need someone check my answer and tell me if there a mistake and what is the correction of it. What types of phrase have been underlined? Analyse the phrases and give information about what elements they contain and what sort of words they consist of. ...

Jackson: See the catenative verb entry in wiki.. These verbs can be followed by other verbs - infinitive, gerund, and bare infinitive. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_catenative_verbs

Hi CB, What is defective/modal auxiliary verb? Sorry for asking you too many questions. I hope you will give a touch to all the above questions. Thanks, Jackson

To my home has nothing to do with verbs. To is a preposition here. An answer to your last question is given in a previous post: " The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in present-tense questions, negations, and conditional clauses." In other words, auxiliary need is...

Too easy for a question here...But there you go Any auxiliary verb will not allow the main verb after it to inflect, let it be will, must, or any other primary / modal auxiliary. Never put an ed or an -s on a verb that is introduced by an auxiliary. Cheers :)

Always and other adverbs of indefinite time (ever, never, usually, seldom etc.) are usually placed after a defective/modal auxiliary in affirmative clauses: I shall always regret that. I would never have believed him. CB