I wanna say I had coffeemaking traineeship few years ago. (not now) Then, which one is correct to write between 'be in training' and 'well-trained'?

Pleasehelp: Many usage experts explain that "public" takes a singular verb in American English; a plural verb in British English. You will also notice this with other words, such as "government."

To be honest, I was among the learners who were taught the word "auxiliary" which are used interchangeably with "modal". If this is not messy enough, some books / references even called them "helping verbs".

Hi pleasehelp In your sentence, "have been" is what is known as a perfect infinitive . There are some other threads here that discuss perfect infinitives. Here are a few of them:

I still have trouble with this kind of construction s , You cannot have would had . Impossible. The only form of have which can directly follow a modal verb is have , never has, had, or having . These are the correct combinations: can have,

Could you tell me when to use just, yet, alredy, ever and never with the Present Perfect Tense. I know where to put these adverbs in a sentence (at the end of a sentence OR between the helping verb and the main verb), but I am not sure which of

When it comes to preposition, I always feel uncomfortable. By reading sentences with ' in or on or of ', I intuitively guess the meaning of sentence. (although, sometimes there are phrasal verbs which have totally different

Thank you. You wrote/corrected (with your comment): 2. This seminar could prove beneficial to those who haven't attended a school in the past. -- In the right context you could say this but as a standalone sentence the article

I often find that, when I'm asked if something is "acceptable" in English, my first response is "No, it isn't" and then I find myself uncovering instances where it might be in a given context. Using a stative verb in

There is a class of verbs in English known as "stative" verbs because they relate to a state of being rather than an action (as in a dynamic verb); believe, hate, love for example are stative verbs. These are never used in the continuous