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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...

I will take you up on your words. "I've never seen things like 'must not have contained' in any grammar book." Buy a decent book then. 'Must have been' exists so its negation: must not have been exists too. Replace the word "been" for "contained". Before you give up English revise...

"He had not been ill, he might have ccome." I think this sentence should read "IF he had not been ill, he might have come." In your sentence, the conjunction that introduces the conditional clause is missing. The second sentence is fine. When a conditional clause contains one of the auxiliary...