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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...

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...

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

Thank you, Mr. M. Then, what are these ones I wrote? They have if-clauses and what look to be resultant clauses, and also, they seem to be good, sensible sentences. All first conditional?? If I hear from you before I leave, I would call you when I get home. If I get a raise this month,...

Hello, Dr. E.T. Babalola! I'm still uncertain of the third example you've given here. Are you fully convinced that the italicised part of the third example is a non-finite clause? As I know, clauses can be divided into two kinds, namely finite clauses and non-finite clauses . The...

Cool Breeze wrote: Hi Belly 1) You could use to get as well. Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours. There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream. It could just as well be All I Have To Do Is To Dream. 2) Not one is...

Hi Belly 1) You could use to get as well. Both the full infinitive (to get) and the plain/bare infintive (get) are correct after do in sentences like yours. There is an old song All I Have To Do Is Dream. It could just as well be All I Have To Do Is To Dream. 2) Not one is idiomatic and...

Kilimanjaro wrote: Hello Cool Breeze, This sentence is taken from Michael SWAN's Practical English Usage. He says "might" can be used in such contexts Hi Kilimanjaro Yes, I know it's from that book. You mentioned it in a previous post. I didn't say it was right or wrong in my opinion. I...

Milky wrote: "I'd like to can swim" is ungrammatical. In English, modal auxiliaries like can and must are disallowed in infinitival clauses." That is a statement that is true of any variety of English with which I am familiar. Prescriptivists and descriptivists are often going to agree...