By Verbs, Word order

(Again, I should emphasise that these are just my personal views. Some of the questions have no "right" and "wrong" answers, and other people may have different opinions.) 1. Sitting at my writing desk placed right-hand side of open window, and working on my English...

Hi RotterYes, of course, there are differences in the word order, but a similar auxiliary (ska, which is related to shall) and a present infinitive (köpa, buy) is needed in your sentence. And a perfect conditional is formed in the same way in English and Swedish as well:If I had had money, I...

There is no such word as invain, it's in vain. In English it is safer not to separate an object from the verb. This sometimes happens if the object is long:I called a friend in vain.I heard there the language of my childhood.CB

Hi, At The American Heritage Book of English Usage at Bartleby.com in the section named "1. Grammar: Traditional Rules, Word Order, Agreement, and Case", I saw this line in its note: However, when a verb is negated by not or never, and is followed by a negative verb phrase (but not an...

Hi Jackson, "He" is in some location, possibly unable to find transportation. Actually, "frequency" in this context is usually applied to busses. One usually calls by telephone for a taxi cab, unless one is in the city at a busy time, and can "hail" a passing cab...

abroad (FOREIGN PLACE) Show phoneticsadjective , adverbin or to a foreign country or countries:He's currently abroad on business.We always go abroad in the summer. It's not always an adverb. It doesn't suit your sentence. Foreign is much better, unless you change the word order...

Yes, I should've done it myself first I got it. I thought the word order was adverb + adjective first, but these are an adjective and a noun phraze, I suppose. By the way, 'favorite' is countable, so; These are particular favorites of mine. Is this correct?

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

I really couldn't tell you which is more common.

Hi PhilipThat's interesting. Would it be more common in the US to have the verb (said) before the subject? That is the old word order in Germanic languages and it is required in Swedish after a quote. English is more flexible in this respect, both word orders are generally considered...