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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Help with "had to" language analysis for my CELTA lesson plan.
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I'm trying to prepare a lesson plan to teach how we talk about ability, possibility and obligation in the past. For my language analysis under "form" the teacher's answers in the textbook the class is using says that in a sentence such as "I had to eat" the form is "had to" + infinitive (without "to") But when I break the sentence down myself I think it should be like this I (subject) had (main verb past tense "have") to eat (infinitive + to). It seems they have artificially grouped "had" and "to" together and it makes more sense to say it is the infinitive + to. Help! Thanks!
I'm trying to prepare a lesson plan to teach how we talk about ability, possibility and obligation in the past. For my language analysis under "form" the teacher's answers in the textbook the class is using says that in a sentence such as "I had to eat" the form is "had to" + infinitive (without "to") But when I break the sentence down myself I think it should be like this I (subject) had (main verb past tense "have") to eat (infinitive + to). It seems they have artificially grouped "had" and "to" together and it makes more sense to say it is the infinitive + to. Help! Thanks!
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Anonymous But when I break the sentence down myself I think it should be like this I (subject) had (main verb past tense "have") to eat (infinitive + to). Sorry, but I don't see it that way at all. There is no sense of possession ('have') that I notice.
- Anonymous But when I break the sentence down myself I think it should be like this I (subject) had (main verb past tense "have") to eat (infinitive + to).
- Sorry, but I don't see it that way at all.
- There is no sense of possession ('have') that I notice.
- 'Have to' is treated as a semi-auxiliary verb by all the grammar books I know of.
- It is idiomatic to the extent that even the pronunciation ( hæf tu: / t?
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AnonymousBut when I break the sentence down myself I think it should be like this I (subject) had (main verb past tense "have") to eat (infinitive + to).Sorry, but I don't see it that way at all. There is no sense of possession ('have') that I notice. 'Have to' is treated as a semi-auxiliary verb by all the grammar books I know of. It is idiomatic to the ex
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