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Anewcomer Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Can I say it like these

0Dear Teachers02br
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00Can I say these sentences(grammatical?):02br
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00"There has not been any problem 01b00happen02b00 to me." 01i00rather than these02i00 ("There has not been any problem 01b00that happens02b00 to me" and "There has not been any problem 01b00happening02b00 to me" and "There has not been any problem 01b00happened02b00 to me")02br
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00"There is a person 01b00say02b00 bad things about her." 01i00rather than these02i00 ("There is a person 01b00saying02b00 bad things about her" and "There is a person 01b00who says02b00 bad things about her)02br
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00 I know the ones in the brackets are correct but I am just curious about "happen and "say"02br
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01font00What is the difference between02font00 "There has not been any problem 01b00happening02b00 to me" and "There has not been any problem 01b00happened02b00 to me" in meaning02br
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0We usually say that we 01b 01i 01u 00have02u 02i 02b 00 problems, not that they happen to us. 01u 00 Accidents02u 00 happen to us. 0-

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  • 0We usually say that we 01b 01i 01u 00have02u 02i 02b 00 problems, not that they happen to us.
  • 01u 00 Accidents02u 00 happen to us.
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0We usually say that we 01b01i01u00have02u02i02b00 problems, not that they happen to us. 01u00 Accidents02u00 happen to us. We can also 01b01i01u00have02u02i02b00 accidents, misfortunes, difficulties.0-
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0Thanks . I know that 02br
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00but what i want really to know are the answers to my questions above. (there are 2questions)0-
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0Sorry, I answered all your questions but my post disappeared.0-
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0Anyway, I'm not going to write all those examples again, but the gist of it is that in the affirmative, you can explain a difference between present continuous and present perfect, but in the negative, when something doesn't happen, it doesn't make much difference if it doesn't happen continuously or if it hasn't happened at all.02br
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00The infinitive, 01u01i
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0Ok but i want to know wheteher i can say like this or not02br
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00"01u01font00T02font01font00here has not been any problem 01b00happen02b00 to me02font02u01font00." 02font01i00rather than these02i
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0None of your "happen" phrases may be said grammatically.02br
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00Substitute "I / we / they" for your blue "There is a person," and you may say, "I 01b01i01u00say02u02i02b00 bad things about her." "It is I / we / they who 01b01i01u00say02u02i02b00 bad things about her
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0Dear Teachers02br
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00Is the heat acting as adjective in this context "There's only a slight heat increase on the bottom of the computer" ?02br
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00From my opinion it's adjective, because if it's an object (noun) here the incease would be "increasing" or "which is increasing" or "which increases"02br
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00So am I right about t
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0 Can I say these sentences(grammatical?): 02br
00"There has not been any problem 01b00happen02b00 to me." 01font00No02font00.01i00 rather than these02i00 ("There has not been any problem 01b00that happens02b00 to me" 01font00No.02font
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0Dear Teacher02br
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00Hi CJ you missed one of my question02br
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00Is the heat acting as adjective in this context "There's only a slight heat increase on the bottom of the computer" ?02br
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00From my opinion it's adjective, because if it's an object (noun) here the incease would be "increasing" or "which is increasing" or "whic
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0 In 01i00heat increase02i00, 01i00heat02i00 is a noun serving as an adjective modifying increase. Together they form a 'compound noun'. Compound nouns are one of the most common structures in English.02br
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