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They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have
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cool breeze
39 days ago
Tenses, Auxiliaries, Present Continuous, Present Tenses, Past Perfect, Present Perfect, Past Tenses, Conditionals, Modal Auxiliaries, Morphology, Future Tenses, Sentences, United Kingdom, Continuous Tenses, Languages
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The most comprehensive dictionary for English is the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the oldest continuously published dictionary of the language. The printed unabridged edition is about 20 large volumes, covering more than 500,000 words. It is
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Thank you Cool Breeze, now I am more certain that inflecitional verb is just a grammatical purpose.
You're welcome. I think you're right. There are cases in which having lots of verb forms may help make the meaning clearer. Oddly
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Although its content is in dispute, the (click here -->) Wiki article on BrE and AmE differences is a good place to start. It describes major categories of differences in spelling, verb morphology, vocabulary, etc. Some vulgarisms in one
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Let there be light. And/ or, let there be the perception of light. Let there be velociraptors and penguins: Dinosaurs breathed like penguins By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News Dinosaurs like Velociraptors owe their fearsome reputation to
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OK, this looks as if my supposition was correct. What you want is English grammatical morphology in simple lists. There ... English (of course they are not as long since the whole business is simpler in English than in Spanish), e.g. Here's a
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peter t. daniels
3 yr 80 days ago
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So you know where to find such information in Spanish? ... be quite easy to find such a list. Ross Clark . probably. . googling pages in Spanish for "accidentes gramaticales" will give you quite a bit of informative pages. . ... there
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otf: How would you call in ENglish all types of ... translates as "what happens as a result of grammar rules" So you know where to find such information in Spanish? Perhaps you could quote us a very small portion of ...
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So you know where to find such information in Spanish? Perhaps you could quote us a very small portion of such a list in Spanish, which might (since some of us know a little Spanish) give us a clear idea of what you're after. But I wonder if
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Sorry if this isn't the best place to join the thread, but, as Eccles memorably said in reply to "What are you doing here?", "Everybody's got to be somewhere". I'm not getting a sense from the discussion of why it
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mike lyle
5 yr 161 days ago
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