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Hi, Does "wanna" have a modal function here? Yes, it does. I think of it as being like 'You ought to . . . ' You should/wanna see a doctor about that cough. You'd normally write it in full as 'want to', unless you were really trying to write dialogue that captures pronunciation, like 'ya' ...

Hello, I am an English teacher who never thought he would post a message on the internet, but it just seemed so appropriate. Basically, English is so difficult because of its innumerable exceptions to rules. A student told me the other day, "at least when you see a new word in Spanish, you know...

Hi I want to improve my pronunciation.. I watch tv in english.. but as well I want to improve my grammar I dont know how to do it.. I get bored of the grammar in specially when my teacher says this is a subject, or she says modal+participle.. do you know another way to learn grammar? returning...

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Modal verb: I have to study Grammar all the time. Present perfect: I have been in Dalat for twenty years. She has been.......... Present perfect continuous: I have been eating She has been eating. Causative: I have my car serviced If -clause; If I have time, I'll go with you ...

Hello Anon The verb "have" in your sentence acts as a modal verb. As a modal verb, it takes an infinitive: 1. She eats salad every day. ] A simple statement about a regular occurrence. 2. She has to eat salad every day. ] We now learn something about the eating: it's something she's compelled...

Hi, Eric. As far as I know, it's the same in BrE. Something students tend to find difficult to remember is the pronunciation of "used" in "to be used to doing something" and in the modal "used to". I am talking about native speakers of Spanish here. They tend to follow the pronunciation of...

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Some words, not only verbs, that are used a lot in speaking, have one weak sound and one strong sound. Weak forms are used in 'connected speech', that is, when you are having a normal, everyday conversation or when they are in the middle of a sentence. For example, the weak form of the verb...