There are three basic kinds of verbs plus many subclasses. Here we cover only the three basic types. Initially, verbs are divided into main verbs and auxiliary verbs. Then auxiliary verbs are divided ...

THE following simple-sounding but actually rather complicated grammar question was posted in Jose Carillo’s English Forum recently by Education student Justine Aragones: “How does the use of auxiliary ...

The present tense describes what's happening now. Depuis is used with the present tense to say how long something has been happening. Learn how to form sentences using the present tense. Key verbs - ...

The perfect tense is used to say what you did or what you have done in the past. To form the perfect tense you need a subject, an auxiliary verb and a past participle. Perfect tense with 'être' in ...

In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival ...

This paper introduces selected concepts from a theory of linguistic structure called SPACE GRAMMAR, and employs these concepts to seek an integrated account of the form and meaning of the English ...