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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:What does (simple) future tense mean in this sentence? The grammarian (it is a grammarian, isn't it?) you're quoting would probably tell you that there is no future tense. Many linguists claim English has only two tenses: Past and Non-past (sometimes called present)....

Just change it into "I must go" - then it's easier to analyze: "go" here is the full verb that is in its infinitive and follows the modal auxiliary must - without to! I have to go: "have to" is the substitute form for "must", "go" again is the full verb in its infinitive. "Have to" here is a...

Always....No. Sometimes we use the gerund, that is, Verb+ING, after 'TO'. Many times the verb is in gerund (-ing form) after a preposition. I'm looking forward to SEEING you. Thank you for COMING. NOTE: 'TO' is not always a preposition. Sometimes it is the first part of an infinitive. Infintive...