In Predicates^x, Negatives^x, Articles^x

"I don't want to go." (= I do not want to go.)do = auxiliary needed in this negative clause, present tensewant = plain/bare present infinitive, or infinitive without a to particle, which has been omitted due to doThese two verbs can be said to be the main verb of the sentence. Please note that...

Dear MrPedantic, yulysess, and Roro, We have opened several issues in this thread. I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them. MrPedantic's original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally,...