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Hi,
In the sentence: I really should go home to my wife, but I need to see the deviltry! Question: Is 'should' a helping verb to 'go'? 'Should' is a modal auxiliary verb
and Is 'need' a helping verb to
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I didn't know I have to stay up all night before I go to the stupid sleep clinic! I'm so tired! Since didn't could be used as a modal shouldn't have be in its base form? Even I know this whole sentence is in the past tense. Or
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I didn't know I have to stay up all night before I go to the stupid sleep clinic! I'm so tired! Since didn't could be used as a modal shouldn't have be in its base form? Even I know this whole sentence is in the past tense. Or
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Please tell me if I have done it correctly?
I have to answer the following questions:
1. (i) What is the difference in meaning between the following sentences?
(ii) Identify the grammatical structure underlined in each sentence
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Terminology varies a little from country to country and ven from grammarian to grammarian. My opinion: Are gerunds verbs? No, but a gerund can take an object and may occur in the passive voice like a verb. I consider a gerund neither a verb nor a
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Hi,
I have difficulty in understanding verb usage(two verbs given and go in same sentence) in below sentence and also please tell me the parts of speech in the sentence.
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And what do you think about: “He is going to satisfy any caprice of hers”. Does this sentence sound OK? Not really. any is tricky. (I don't have to tell you that. ) If any occurs after the verb, one of these things is often also present:
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Might is always considered a modal in English. However, and that is why I think yours is a good question, in other languages, such as my own – which is Dutch – we do in fact add an adverb to the verb phrase of the sentence. In the end, the
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That article at that link you posted mentions three ways of dealing
with "spoken grammar". The second one is actually the approach I was
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