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Hi CB, What is defective/modal auxiliary verb? Sorry for asking you too many questions. I hope you will give a touch to all the above questions. Thanks, Jackson

To my home has nothing to do with verbs. To is a preposition here. An answer to your last question is given in a previous post: " The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in present-tense questions, negations, and conditional clauses." In other words, auxiliary need is...

Jackson: #1 "do" is a verb. (auxiliary) not an adverb. "need" is the main verb; the object is the infinitive phrase..("need to" is synonymous with "have to") #2 say is the main verb, Need is an auxiliary verb. Like the auxiliaries can or may, it does not...

This is not a double negation. A double negation is two negatives in the same clause!!! Did I not just tell you is one clause. The not applies to the verb tell . to not say that is another clause. The not applies to the verb say . (By the way, I would have rephrased it as Didn't I just...

Hi, Avangi! I'm not sure what you mean by "solution". You mean a paraphrase of the originals that uses "not to", I suppose. I find both examples to be "borderline grammatical" as is. They seem syntactically sound, but semantically anomalous. To my ear, the verb...

In English the negation is raised to the main clause in almost all cases where the main verb is think or want . I don't think he is ready, usually not I think he is not ready. I didn't want him to come closer, usually not I wanted him not to come closer. CJ

Can you be sure of it if you use "will"? how about the second part of my question: Which is better: We are sending emails to each other from time to time We send emails to each other from time to time thank you CJ

There are several adverbs and determiners which are negative in meaning but not in form. They include: seldom, rarely; scarcely, hardly, barely; little, few (in contrast to the positive a little and a few ) They can effect clause negation: for example sentences in which they appear generally...

Here are some examples The main point is to explain the correct answer The sentences are little-bit childisch ;they are some modified sentences. I am afraid that my explanations seems to be a little childisch, too. So please help me how to turn it into the right explanation. Mary was real...

E, because the reading of Freud probably stimulated the speaker's first thoughts about the significance of dreams. It's doubtful that the speaker thought about that topic at all before reading Freud, so it's not likely that "he didn't think dreams were of so much...