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Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the...

Anonymous wrote: Sorry Milky, for my butting in. I followed your discussion, and I wanted to hear your opinion about the following comments: CalifJim wrote: In any case, I thought the difference was supposed to lie along the speaker-oriented vs. subject-oriented axis , not the...

Paco2004 wrote: Hello Anon I'm sorry but I have to say all of your sentences sound a bit weird. The conjunction "No matter how" is usually followed by an indicative (non-modal) predication. #4 is wrong because of tense mismatch between the concessive and main clauses. (EX) No matter how...

What are they mean? 1) hypotactic clause Is it a dependent clause or main clause? 2) delected functional element? 3) deontic modal 4) cicumstantial clause Is it an adverb clause of place? 5) anticipatory subject Is it the word "it" when it used as grammatical subject...