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Hi Which part is the main part of the conditional sentence and which part is auxiliary? Do you have some tips that will help me to distinguish that easily? Those two look like first conditionals and as far as I know, the modal "would" is usually not used unless it involves what I call a...

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...

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,...

Hi Newguest I have the following to share with you. may / might Similarly, we can use the modal auxiliaries may or might to say that there is a chance that something is true or may happen. May and might are used to talk about present or future events. They can normally be used...

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...

Peaceblinkfriend wrote: Hi, If I hadn't passed my exam, I wouldn't have gone to Cancun. = This is a conditional clause and in this instance, it is being used to talk about something that might have happened in the past, but did not in fact happen. In this sort of conditional clause, you use the...

I think this is the recommended one: -- If I had gone to the supermarket, I would definitely have bought some ham. but others are possible: -- When there are two or more verb auxiliaries, the adverb usually goes after the first: -- You have definitely been working too hard. But...

Lcchang wrote: It seems to me that a present auxiliary "may" is used for the past event. That has confused me for a while. She may have forgotten our invitation. Other than being used for degrees of certainty for the events that was happened in the past, can "may" also be used for...

Anonymous wrote: I have seen similar putative sentences. "I am suprised that he should feel lonely."(1) "I am suprised that he feels lonely." I don't remember the exact sentences in Quirk's "A Comprehensive English Grammar". I wonder if the first sentence can be written as "I will be suprised...