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... occur . Can / could , may / might , must , and the semi - modals , ought to ( in ME the past form of owe ) , want to , have to , got to , and need to , indicate that the action of the verb with which they are used is cast in the future ...
... occur . Can / could , may / might , must , and the semi - modals , ought to ( in ME the past form of owe ) , want to , have to , got to , and need to , indicate that the action of the verb with which they are used is cast in the future ...
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... occur . In English , modals like must , should , oughta , and hafta are ambiguous with respect to whether the impulse to act originates with the agent of the verb or external factors . When someone says , " I must / hafta eat pizza ...
... occur . In English , modals like must , should , oughta , and hafta are ambiguous with respect to whether the impulse to act originates with the agent of the verb or external factors . When someone says , " I must / hafta eat pizza ...
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... occur with it . Obviously , a noun can function many ways , depending on the sentence in which it occurs , so the case labels Nominative , Dative , Genitive , and Accusative name the four most frequent ways that nouns function in the ...
... occur with it . Obviously , a noun can function many ways , depending on the sentence in which it occurs , so the case labels Nominative , Dative , Genitive , and Accusative name the four most frequent ways that nouns function in the ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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