By helping verbs, Inflections

Hello Xavier, you're right of course: Communication is one of the tasks of language. The Grammar is "late": Language follows special patterns (word order, inflection, cases, conjugation, etc) - language has to follow those patterns as without them, communication wouldn't be possible. The only...

Right! I forgot about the second question! Probably you should try to keep three different forms straight. Statement: It means ... (as in "It means 'helpful'.") Direct question: What does it mean? Indirect question: ... what it means. (This one cannot be used without something before...

In former times, questions were built by a so called 'inversion', that means Subject and Verb of the actual sentence changed positions: Examples: You like tea. -----> Question: Like you tea? He likes tea. -----> Question: Likes he tea? This was possible as word order did not loom very large,...

I was a bit confused myself in the beginning becuase I thought that modals were just can, could; may, might; will, would; must; shall, should. These verbs are the "classical" modals, but every verb that expresses/describes the modus of a full verb is a modal verb: I may go e.g. means I have...

I would like to get the necessary information that answer the following questions: Who conquered England between 1050 and 1080 ac? ********* The Normans. They came from France. Which language did the conquerors speak? ********* French Who was the main person responsible in developing the...