Hi Matt, and welcome to English Forums. I'm not sure I agree with your lecturer. In American English, we rarely say "I haven't time" - instead we say "I don't have time" but either way, "have" is the

Jackson: Do we need to say more? Let me ask you few more questions. In Will you come to my home today : will is an auxiliary verb come is main verb to my home is infinitive object today is an adverb will is still there when this interrogative

Hi guys Why in this question we do not use "did": Who brought you up? (instead of: Who did bring you up?) And in this one we do: Who did you look up to? (instead of: Who you looked up to?) Hi, It has to do with the role of " who

{ In Swedish, the verb comes first in the main clause. Swedish is like that.} Hi Rotter Yes, 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 )

Hi Nader I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. Has he talking? is wrong. You could say: Has he been talking? If you are asking whether a have or has question can always be formed by changing the word order, the answer is no. It is safer

... how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CAN? Same rule. With these negative polarity items like hardly and rarely , invert subject and operator so that you have the same word order as you would use in a question. For more

Maple wrote: But this one seems correct: Not far from there stood Edgar Snow , the famous American author . Hi Maple You are right. However, note that just the word order is inverted and the usual grammatical interrogative structure is not used.

I always thought it was a remnant of the French (Norman Invasion, 1066). There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with "to be" rather than "to have" in the passé composé (past) tense. Rise, born, arrive, leave, go (all "coming and going"

I think you all are missing one thing; it's the very basic question. The definition of operator. Up till now no one has defined what operators actually are. Operators are verbs with special properties as explained in the article I

Hello, Raven, and welcome! The normal word order for a question is: "Interrogative word - Auxiliary - Subject - (rest of the verbal form) - (Complements) - preposition. So, only 1. is correct (for a question, as Goodman says)