By Regards, Auxiliaries

Here are my opinions. Two different should's are possible: the should of expectation should-exp the should of advice should-adv should-adv is much more common than should-exp.should-exp expresses an evaluation of the situation with regard to what is possible, probable, plausible, or...

Clive wrote:As a general comment, and I'm not talking about this specific thread, I find that many sentences queried on the Forum are correct but would never be said, or only be said in contexts and circumstances that are odd to say the least. Such things commonly require a lot of effort and...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

The house will have needed repainting is grammatically correct but sounds odd. I can't think of a situation in which I could say it. With regard to your question, there is no such thing as a continuous gerund. Repainting is usually just called a gerund but you can also call it a present gerund....

Keenlearner wrote: Hi, "I think I might have an idea." wat is meant by the sentence above mentioned?I got this from a cartoom movie,where they were trying to trap the mice, and a man said that sentence.Why might has been used in this sentence instead of may? Please tell me that and also let...

Hello Everone, I need urgent help on "verbs". To be very specific, I need resources or guidelines to help me distinguish between : 'finite verb' , 'verb non finite Adjectival' , 'verb non finite Adverbial' , 'Auxiliary verbs' and ' verb non finite Nominal'. I am not a language expert or a...

I think you all are missing one thing; it's the very basic question. The definition of operator. Up till now no one has defined what operators actually are. Operators are verbs with special properties as explained in the article I cited for you above. Some authors just call them...

I would regard the advice on that website as guidelines, not fixed rules. But whatever the case, the most natural position of adverbs of frequency is what that site calls the "middle position", i.e., after the "operator" if there is one (a form of to be, a modal, an auxiliary do or...

Mister Micawber wrote:I see no grammatical form or semantic meaning in had have had, I don't dispute you, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. And I can infer semantic meaning. Presumably that's because I'm used to hearing both versions, and I distinguish between them automatically. ...

Tearsofjoy wrote: Choosing the correct auxiliary verbs when there's an "either... or..." or "neither... nor..." in the sentence. Here are a few correct sentences that I picked up from Wren and Martin(probably the best grammar book I have ever seen). 1) Either he or I am mistaken. 2) Either...