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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...

that I know how to ... (NO!)

Hi, I am afraid I didn't understand exactly what you wanted. Hopefully someone else will be able to understand and help you a little more. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a few opinions: I have bought a book for a year. <-- No, this is not good, as you said. You could say: I have...

Of the four, I would not use the third -- thought ... can't ... Actually, I probably wouldn't use any of them. Normally the negation is "raised" to the main clause with verbs like think . I would use one of these: She think that her purse could have been found by any of the...

Do existed in Old English more than a thousand years ago as a regular verb and meant to cause . It is impossible to say who introduced it to English. It's use as an auxiliary in questions and negations was established in Shakespeare's day when it was correct to say both I know not him...

Need sometimes behaves like a modal, for example 'She need know', 'She needn't know', or, in more formal English, 'She need not know'. Palmer ( The English Verb ) says, "The modal forms are available only with ... negation and interrogation." So She need know is not possible. It has to be She...

I imagine that, even if you confine it to appearance expressions, you're going to run into trouble with when to use have and when to use has . Secondly, there's going to be a fuss over the question forms do ... have and does ... have . Then there's going to be a stumbling block with negations...

Hi I would like to know more about the use of "since" and "for" with the Present Perfect Simple. I have found that these expressions are mainly used in the Present Perfect Simple in order to show a continuous situation, (especially with stative verbs that most of the time are used only in...