By Verbs, Contractions

Hi YLHere is one last try:"Don't I receive" is a standard way to write the contracted form of the inversion "do I not receive". In other words: - don't I receive = do I not receive- don't I receive is a subject-verb inversion ==> The uninverted, uncontracted...

Dear Howard Leigh Ph.D., If we are going to get into silly mudslinging battles over the word "often" and claiming illigitimacy of posts due to lack of name, qualifications, and misspellings then I suggest that you start with the very word misspelling which contains two of the...

The correct form is obviously "you're". You're beautiful! However, "Your beautiful!" sounds the same as the contraction "you're", and it's so common on the net that sometimes I even think it actually looks better, LOL. I'm afraid the majority of...

hi ..how are ya ? this might help .. F: I can't play tennis well, and I don't have a racket. Native English: I´m not (so) good at playing tennis..plus I don't have a racket, so I cant play. F: Good. May I take my boyfriend with me? Native English: That´s great .can I bring my...

Hello, welcome to the forum. No need to say sorry - that's what we are here for You have quite a few problems but nothing major and you are certainly understandable, so you are getting there! I'd say your main problems are verb tenses - for example 'technologies keep evolve'...

1. The possessive of a plural noun ending in s is formed by adding: A. another s and an apostrophe. B. another s only. C. an apostrophe only. D. none of the above I think the answer is C. 2. Which of the following shows the correct possessive form of a plural noun? A. three dogs bowls B....

Not really a difference. It's essentially an idiomatic suggestion, nowadays. "Let us" would literally translate as "allow us", but it more closely means "we should/should we/how about we/why don't we". Saying "let us" only differs from "let's" in nuance. They mean exactly the same thing. "Let...

I kept trying to turn this into a snippy Algonquin-round-table type remark: "She was a mass of contradictions, many of which are chronicled in her writing." In other words, she's a lousy writer (her writing is full of contradictions), as well as a mess personally But I don't think you can use...

Hi K.,I spent a whole year in the UK, doing a postgraduate course. To make things worse, I chose to go to Wales because Cardiff Uni is at the cutting edge in my field. Have you ever heard somebody speaking with a Welsh accent? For the first two months there, I only wanted to cry... In spite of my...

Jackson6612 wrote:1: I should not respect you. 2: Should I not respect you? 3: Shouldn't I respect you? The sentences 2 and 3 are the interrogatives made from the sentence 1. The sentence 3 is much more common than sentence 2. In grammar, a clause that is in the interrogative has its subject...