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Re: First conditional

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:12:50 GMT

First conditional: When you're gone, I'll miss you. Not correct. Try "If you (are to) go, Iâll miss you."
Zero conditional: When you're gone, I miss you. OK

Is ARE present simple in both phrases? It is. See bracketed version.

Because in the first conditional, it's strange to think that ARE is talking about the present when it's giving us the idea of future. If it is present simple, are there any other verb tense options when you want to give this idea of future from first conditional? Present continuous or perfect. You can even use âwillâ in the if-clause in this conditional if itâs not an auxiliary and it means determination as in âIf you will(~determine to) go, Iâll miss you.â

Re: S+V or S+LV+SC

Yankee — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:05:41 GMT

Specter wrote:
Hello teachers,

The sentence pattern of the following bothers me:

1) I am bored.

I was taught that this is an S+LV+SC pattern where 'bored' functions as an adjective and denotes condition. It is the past participle of the verb ~~teach~~ bore. The main verb is am, right? Yes

2) I am bored by the movie.

Is this also an S+LV+SC pattern? NO I was told that if we put the agent, it changes the pattern to S+V. Yes

a)Is the sentence in the present simple passive form? Yes

b)Is the main verb am or is it bored? bore If the verb is in the simple passive voice, then that makes 'am' the auxiliary? Right

thank you

Specter

S+V or S+LV+SC

Specter — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:55:42 GMT

Hello teachers,

The sentence pattern of the following bothers me:

1) I am bored.

I was taught that this is an S+LV+SC pattern where 'bored' functions as an adjective and denotes condition. It is the past participle of the verb teach. The main verb is am, right?

2) I am bored by the movie.

Is this also an S+LV+SC pattern? I was told that if we put the agent, it changes the pattern to S+V.

a)Is the sentence in the present simple passive form?

b)Is the main verb am or is it bored? If the verb is in the simple passive voice, then that makes 'am' the auxiliary?

thank you

Specter

Re: Correct order in which to parse a verb?

Garnett — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:29:51 GMT

Mister Micawber wrote:

Future Simple (I will sit)
Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)
Future Perfect (I will have sat")
Present Simple (I sit)
Past Simple (I sat)
Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)
Past Perfect (I had sat)
Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been sitting)

Any I've missed? -- See VERB FORMS

Also can you hjelp me with Moods: Indicative, Subjunctive, Imperative. -- See VERB MOODS

In Latin you use the Jussive Subjuntive for sentences like "Let them eat cake", or "Let's go to the park". What is this construction in English? This is a causative imperative (I think).

Awesome. Thanks for those references.

Mister Micawber wrote:
"The bus stop was situated outside the airport - 3rd person singular, passive (or more probably active with the linking verb be and a predicate adjective), indicative." Are you parsing "be" here, then? -- Yes

Cool. That's what I thought.

Mister Micawber wrote:
Just because "situated" is being used as a participle adjective here, doesn't mean it can't be parsed like any other verb. It is a PPP isn't it - past passive participle? -- Not if it is an adjective.

I disagree.

In "the flying machine", "flying" can be parsed (at least partially) - Active present participle.

Participle Adjective: "A form of a verb that in some languages, such as English, can function independently as an adjective, as the past participle baked in We had some baked beans, and is used with an auxiliary verb to indicate tense, aspect, or voice, as the past participle baked in the passive sentence The beans were baked too long." ~ from Dictionary.com.

Is it a verb being used as an Adjective, or an out-and-out adjective? Frfom the definition above I would argue the former.

Mister Micawber wrote:
Don't confuse form and function. It is wisest to call it simply an -ed verb form

I think that's the crux.

Have you sen my thread here?

What are your thoughts?

I believe "stood" can replace "situated" in the sentence "I was situated at the bus stop".

"Situated" is defined in the dictionary as an adjective in its own right. "Stood" is not.

It appears then, to hinge on whether "situated" is a adjective "with the linking verb be and a predicate adjective" or whether it is a "participle adjective" that could be replaced by any other participle adjective like "stood"...

Re: Get

Jussive — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:34:11 GMT

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark.

This is fine. Itâs the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple

2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark.

This would work as the second conditional if you replaced âmustâ with âwouldâ. In such a case, the past simple âgotâ would refer to the future, and such a form would suggest that getting a bad mark is unlikely, improbably or just simply imaginary.

As it stands, this sentence only makes sense if the papers have already been marked and, therefore, âgotâ refers to the past. Iâm unsure of the precise terminology but I think itâs also categorised as 'the first conditional' as we are referring to a condition that is possible even though it is in the past. If someone disputes the term being used for this form then please say so.

3. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark tomorrow.

This is the same as number one.

4. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark tomorrow.

Now, this doesnât work as either the first conditional (âgotâ canât refer to the past because of âtomorrowâ) or the second conditional (âmustâ refers to a real possibility (a logical conclusion) whereas the past simple âgotâ doesnât).

If you replaced âmustâ with âwouldâ then you would have the second conditional:

âYou would be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark tomorrow.â

Re: Past Perfect

Jussive — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:15:57 GMT

Jack112 wrote:

Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them?

1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct)

2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How do I distinguish between a main verb and an auxiliary?)

Thanks

Hi Jack. Sorry I didnât reply to this earlier but Iâve been away.

Donât worry about not understanding. English grammar is not always clear-cut and neither is the teaching of it.

What you have trouble with is auxiliaries that also have a lexical form such as âdoâ or âhaveâ. In their auxiliary form they help to create tense (bar creating questions or emphasis). They are used in conjunction with lexical verbs. As you know, lexical verbs often take complements or objects, for example:

âI have homework.â

Here âhomeworkâ is the object of the verb and, obviously, as we only have one verb (âhaveâ) in this sentence (clause), it is, therefore, being used as a lexical verb.

âI have needed homework.â

âI have always needed homeworkâ

Bar some obvious exceptions such as when the predicate is a compound, two lexical verbs donât fit together in the same clause. (Donât confuse this with infinitives, participles or gerunds.) In other words, âhaveâ has to be an auxiliary as it is followed by the lexical verb âneedâ and varies its tense. âHomeworkâ is therefore the object of the verb âneedâ. âHave neededâ is what is traditionally known as a verb phrase, a verb consisting of more than one word. One thing which you need to see is that this does not change if we replace the lexical verb âneedâ with a verb which has both a lexical and auxiliary form:

âI have done my homework.â

âI have always done my homework.â

âI have had homework.â

âI have always had homework.â

There is a second verb so âhaveâ is the auxiliary, âdoneâ and âhadâ are lexical verbs and âhomeworkâ their object.

A. âI have done more homework than I do now.â

B. âI have needed more homework than I need now.â

C. âI have had more homework than I have now.â

These three are correct. Notice the lexical verbs in the first clauses match the lexical verbs in the second: âdoneâ and âdoâ; âneededâ and âneedâ; âhadâ and âhaveâ. Notice also that we are only comparing the past to the present and, other than that, we are comparing the same thing, for example, the homework I have done compared with the homework I do.

1. âHe does more homework than I do.â

2. âHe has done more homework than I have.â

3. âHe has done more homework than I do now.â

4. âHe needs more homework than I need.â

5. âHe has needed more homework than I have.â

6. âHe has needed more homework than I need now.'

7. âHe has more homework than I have.â

8. âHe has had more homework than I have.â

9. âHe has had more homework than I have now.â

All the above are correct. (If number three compares a past completed action with a single present continuing action then it makes no sense. It only makes sense if the past perfect refers to a period of time and the present simple refers to an habitual action (as with âAâ).

Notice (above) that when we are comparing different things or people there are more grammatically correct combinations. For example, the homework he has done compared with the homework I have done:

âHe has done more homework than I have.â

This sentence is elliptical because âhaveâ cannot be a lexical verb otherwise we would be comparing the lexical forms of âhaveâ with âdoâ (âhavingâ with âdoingâ). Have, in the second clause, only makes sense as an auxiliary whose lexical verb is implied. The sentence could alternatively read:

âHe has done more homework than I have done.â

It is nonsensical to compare the homework I have done with the homework I have done and therefore the sentence âI have done more homework than I have now,â is incorrect because âhaveâ (as explained in the previous example) has to be an auxiliary and therefore (1) we are comparing two identical things and two identical people with two identical tenses (2) ânowâ is nonsensical as you canât âhave doneâ something ânowâ.

âHe has had more homework than I have.â

In this sentence, âhaveâ in the second clause could be either an auxiliary or a lexical verb. âHadâ, in the first clause, is a lexical verb (as explained at the beginning) and we can compare the lexical forms of âhadâ with âhaveâ (âhavingâ with âhavingâ; first clause, second clause):

âHe has had more homework than I have (homework)â

âHaveâ, in the second clause, also works as an auxiliary because we are comparing two different things even if they are in the same tense:

âHe has had more homework than I have (had).â

Hope thatâs helped.

Jussive

Re: Correct grammer

miriam — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:29:07 GMT

Hello all.

I agree that "visitors are asked to sign the guest book" or something along those lines is correct.

"Asked", in the example sentence, is a past participle -not an adjective or a past tense- and it is the lexical verb of the sentence (the one that carries the meaning). "Are" is the auxiliary used to form the passive voice for the present simple (there is no progressive tense in the example).

I hope this helps clarify things a bit.

Miriam

Re: have been gone

parasite — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 03:17:43 GMT

hi...

i've read this tip from the englishforums.com ....hope it helps

the passive is be (is,was,have been) + past participle

We can form the passive in any tense. In fact, conjugation of verbs in the passive tense is rather easy, as the main verb is always in past participle form and the auxiliary verb is always be. To form the required tense, we conjugate the auxiliary verb. So, for example:

present simple: It is made
present continuous: It is being made
present perfect: It has been made

Could you explain more...why " have been gone" it's not correct...
and what about "have been told" ?? i think i've heard from a song.

Re: Spanish (or German) student Vs Japanese student!

Novalee — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:45:04 GMT

Hello meg2589 and all,
I almost exclusively teach Spanish students, with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story. I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we, Spanish people, find when studying English.
The first problem that you mention is the 'false cognates' which we call 'false friends': they are similarly written words or expressions that have different meanings in both languages. The funniest example I can give is 'to be constipated', which I'm sure you know the meaning. Well, in Spanish we have 'constipado' which means to have a cold: not at all the same meaning
The overuse of articles is also a problem. But students learn the rules of when to use it and when not.
As for more grammar mistakes:
- 'Auxiliary verbs': there is no such thing in Spanish, so a lot of emphasis must be put on the use of them. A useful and popular exercise is to change an affirmative sentence to negative and interrogative.
-Third person singular s in the Present Simple: Even with 18-year-old students, we still have this problem. They simply skip it and we, teachers, must put a lot of emphasis in this simple aspect of grammar.
-Adjectives: 'they have no plural form'. I repeat this sentence thousands of times and they don't catch it. This doesn't happen in Spanish: adjectives have gender and number, unlike English. The same happens with the order: in Spanish they usually go after the noun, not before it.
-Speaking of order...: Word order in a sentence. In Spanish it's much more free, but in English is more fixed. Another point to be taken into account if they want to be understood. Common mistakes are, for example, Said the teacher that would give we more homework which should be The teacher said that he would give us more homework Do you see what I mean?
Well, the list would go on and on, but I'm giving you some examples. I don't know if you were looking for this. If I'm right, feel free to ask for more, and I'll post more examples of common mistakes Spanish students make.

See you.

Re: What happened to you? or What did it happen to you?

taiwandave — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 20:24:29 GMT

1. What happened to you?
2. What did happen to you?

The difference between [1] and [2] is the inclusion of the auxiliary verb "do". This is added to secure emphasis, and is called the intensive form. Example:

A: What happened to your face? Did you get into a fight?
B: No.
A: Then what did happen?

Here's an example in the present simple:

I don't know what my teacher is talking about. I do work hard.