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There are a series of conflicts that run throughout this story the most important being Trujillo s abuse of his dictatorship over the country an external conflict between Trujillo and society There are a series of conflicts main clausethere pronoun non referential or existential there are...

1 I found this explanation of WOULD from Collin s English Usage possible situations You use should or would to say that something is certain to happen in particular circumstances After I or we you can use either should or would I should be very unhappy on the continent We would be glad to have...

Hi e 1 I ll do what I think is right 2 I ll do it which I think is right i pronoun functioning as subject will is modals OK although I d call it an auxiliary verb do main verb what is think is right is direct object OK I d call it a subordinate noun clause If you want to you can analyse each word...

Not Matt is Matt is I can offer you no linguistic explanation sorry Perhaps another member can I m sure that you have noticed that short responses use only the auxiliary Who s been sleeping in my bed Goldilocks has Who can suggest an answer I can Who ll get the phone I will Who dances with...

1 Where are you I ve been waiting for 2 hours2 I needn t have brought that milkI subjectneed have bought verb present perfect tense modal form need is the auxiliary buy is the main verb bought is the past participle not adverb that demonstrative pronoun refering to milkmilk noun object of the...

CB Thank you for your input At least I know I am not the only one with the PASSIVE approach toward this typeof sentences lt lt lt Football is a popular sport which that is played in almost all Asian and European countries gt gt gt The sentence consists of a main clause and a relative clause which...

quote user Huevos quote user Goodman football is a popular sport played almost in all Asain and European countries There is no direct agent here but it s still a passive structure quote That sentence is not in the passive voice quote Football is a popular sport which that is played in almost all...

quote user Tanit But I m stuck with a sentence where to do is replaced by not to do a1 I suggest not doing X I reckon this is fine a2 I suggest not to do X b1 I suggest that Y shouldn t do X I reckon this is fine b2 I suggest that Y not do don t X this sounds terribly bad quote Your questions...

I think it s a big mistake because the verb after the auxiliary is in the past participle it means that the auxiliary should be has the verb to have in the present instead of is the verb to be in the present its a common mistake and it s a confusion of the contracted form of this sentence He s...

You can use the full form the pro form or just the pronoun In the last case note that isolated subject pronouns after than are often expressed as object pronouns in informal situations The pro form is the echo of the operator modal or auxiliary do if the first clause has no other operator Joe can...