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Bluecross Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
HAS/HAVE/HAD/IN/ON/WAS/WERE
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I need your help on the following. I don't think my English is all that bad, but I frequently get confused when trying to use the following verbs. A detailed description with examples is as follows:
She has to go. (Present)
She had to go. (Past)
May I come in?
Might I come in?
On the table
In the table
At the table
That is mine- present tense?
That was mine - pastense?
both are correct right????
But then again, the kind of "inflection" we're concerned about in this discussion is temporal in nature, and not morphological in form. That is, if it's not called "inflection", then what is it called? Is there a difference between run/ran and has to/had to, and if not, is has to/had to not a true modal? Moreover, why is it that in order to get "could" to bend time, we have to negate it?
bluecross
I need your help on the following. I don't think my English is all that bad, but I frequently get confused when trying to use the following verbs. A detailed description with examples is as follows:
She has to go. (Present)
She had to go. (Past)
May I come in?
Might I come in?
On the table
In the table
At the table
That is mine- present tense?
That was mine - pastense?
both are correct right????
But then again, the kind of "inflection" we're concerned about in this discussion is temporal in nature, and not morphological in form. That is, if it's not called "inflection", then what is it called? Is there a difference between run/ran and has to/had to, and if not, is has to/had to not a true modal? Moreover, why is it that in order to get "could" to bend time, we have to negate it?
bluecross
Top answer
She has to go. (Present)-- right She had to go. (Past) -- right May I come in?
- She has to go.
- (Present)-- right She had to go.
- (Past) -- right May I come in?
- -- polite Might I come in?
- -- a little bit more polite On the table -- yes, on the top In the table -- only as a shortened form of in a/the drawer of the table At the table -- possibly, if the thing is big and the table is 'way over there .
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She has to go. (Present)-- right
She had to go. (Past) -- right
May I come in? -- polite
Might I come in? -- a little bit more polite
On the table -- yes, on the top
In the table -- only as a shortened form of in a/the drawer of the table
At the table -- possibly, if the thing is bi
She had to go. (Past) -- right
May I come in? -- polite
Might I come in? -- a little bit more polite
On the table -- yes, on the top
In the table -- only as a shortened form of in a/the drawer of the table
At the table -- possibly, if the thing is bi
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