Lcchang wrote: Does the past modals uesd here mean something happened in the past? If it is true, then why can "may" be used here since it is a present modal? Can we consider all the sentences above to be conditoinal sentences because they

Modals are auxiliary verbs to express in what way or how the speaker thinks NOW about some event. (1) When the event is the one that is happening now or in future, you use the form <modal+V>. (EX) Mr. Chang speaks good English. He must study

Anonymous wrote: I have some confusions regarding the use of "passessive s". When do we have to use it? For example, we use it in the following case: Student's name but we say: Computer name. Is there any general rule here? A computer name is

Clive wrote: Hi, 6. He invited Mitch to come sweat with him at his health club. He suggested : “ Let's go sweat at my health club, Mitch .” Sorry, I forgot to delete 'with me'. Yhanks Paco. Best wishes, Clive Thanks for the

Lcchang wrote: Can any teacher help, please? Hello Chang I guess you are asking rather the semantic difference(s) between "possible" and "probable". Right? I found a good site online to explain this. Here they say like below.

HMLithman wrote: It should be noted that the use of a nominative complement ("It is I") is by no means universal in other languages. For example, French-speakers say "c'est moi" (it's me) not "c'est je". "C'est moi". This "moi" is not

Hela wrote: 6. He invited Mitch to come sweat with him at his health club. He suggested : “Will you come sweat with me at my health club, Mitch?” Clive wrote: 6. He invited Mitch to come sweat with him at his health club. He suggested : “

My grammar book and one of my E-J dictionaries say as follows: (EX) Does/Do any of the members agree with you? (EX) None of the books was/were placed on the shelves. Prescriptive grammars have tended to insist on the singular verb, but notional

Hello "Already" is "by this/that time". It is most often used with the perfect tenses. But this does not mean its use with other tense is wrong. Actually, the original sense of "already" was "all ready" "fully in a state of preparation". So it can

The serial comma (also known as the Oxford comma or Harvard comma) is the comma used immediately before a conjunction (such as "and" or "or") in a list of three or more items. The phrase "ham, chips, and eggs" is written with a serial comma, but