In Modals^x, Present simple^x

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark. This is fine. It’s the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple 2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark. This would work as the second conditional if you replaced ‘must’ with ‘would’. In such a case, the...

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The structure is: subject + have + object + past participle Note...

Hello, Jessica. You correctly flagged this sentence as being incorrect: 1. If the mother is not happy, neither would be the child. The problem with the speaker is simply stating that if A is true, B is also true. Hence the use of "will", not "would". The simplest way of making this point...

Of course I don't mind your asking I don't know what your first language is, but in my country, Spanish speakers find it difficult too to understand that the "s" is necessary to form the simple present of a verb for the 3rd. person singular. The reason is that we associate the addition of an "s"...