In Numbers^x, Past tenses^x, Modals^x

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...

Hi, 1. Would you say if a person is reporting on a content that is permanent, on-going, or relevant in content nature, the reporting word could be both present and past and also, do you feel both present and past tenses are OK in the that -clause? He said/says his house is/was in Chicago. He...

In the early Church , Christians would celebrate the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ (known as the saint's "birth day") by serving an All-Night Vigil , and then celebrating the Eucharist over their tomb or place of martyrdom. In the fourth century, neighbouring dioceses began to...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ? After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Kilimanjaro wrote: Hello Cool Breeze, This sentence is taken from Michael SWAN's Practical English Usage. He says "might" can be used in such contexts Hi Kilimanjaro Yes, I know it's from that book. You mentioned it in a previous post. I didn't say it was right or wrong in my opinion. I...

Hi Brummel Welcome to the forums. Your reasoning regarding can and could is right, and what causes further problems is the fact that can has a number of meanings. He can play the piano can be put in the past by simply replacing can with could especially if the reference is to skill, ability or...

Thanks for your reply, MrP. 1. I would call it an exclamatory conditional. The main clause is left unspoken, but we can usually infer it, e.g. "if only she would contact me, I would be very happy". Ok, it’s a conditional with an unexpressed result but still a ‘conditional’ right? In...

Posted By: just the truth on 04-23-2005 02:00 AM Subject: Re: Past Perfect Message: Paco: What you are (or the book is) saying is just about epistemic modals. Some root modals like 'will' (futurity) or 'can' (ability) have tense finiteness. So your saying cannot be generalized for all...

Paco: What you are (or the book is) saying is just about epistemic modals. Some root modals like 'will' (futurity) or 'can' (ability) have tense finiteness. So your saying cannot be generalized for all modals. JTT: These aren't separate modals. They are modals with varying meanings. It is...

1a. That's not the man I married, these days he will sit in front of the telly for hours watching football. 1b. At the beginning of our relationship, he would write some romantic letters for me, he would send me flowers every day. 3a. I can swim the distance of 400m in 90 seconds! ...