By Word order, Auxiliaries

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...

Hi NaderI'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 to use do in the present tense:Does he have...

... 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 on operators, see also Post:245063 and...

Maple wrote:But this one seems correct: Not far from there stood Edgar Snow, the famous American author.Hi MapleYou are right. However, note that just the word order is inverted and the usual grammatical interrogative structure is not used.Cf.Not only did he stand on a chair, he also looked...

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" verbs) are some examples. We also sing "He is...

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 cited for you above. Some authors just call them...

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)

To use the auxiliary 'do' to form questions and negative clauses is a phenomenon that is only about 400 years old. 'Do' existed in Old English but it meant 'to cause' as in What caused the accident? In Shakespeare's day 'do' began to be used in questions and there were two ways to form a...

Hello, Janissary, 1. If a clause begins with a negative adverb, inverted word order must usually be used, with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to...

3. What language do you think is the most difficult? 4. What language do you think the most difficult is? I guess the third one is right, isn't it? When we ask for information, we often say somethink like "Could you tell me.. ". If you begin a question like this, the word order is different...