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    11 Auxiliary verbs: particular uses Exercise 11A p.120 Replace the words in italics with a construction using one of the auxiliary verbs dealt with above, except where the use of be able is required (see Explanation h, j). For impersonal constructions, use one or you. It's possible that Robert will be —> Robert may be kicked out of his kicked out of his football team. football team. Is it possible to be kicked out for —> Can you be kicked out for putting putting on

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    11 Auxiliary verbs: particular uses Exercise 11A p.120 Replace the words in italics with a construction using one of the auxiliary verbs dealt with above, except where the use of be able is required (see Explanation h, j). For impersonal constructions, use one or you. It's possible that Robert will be —> Robert may be kicked out of his kicked out of his football team. football team. Is it possible to be kicked out for —> Can you be kicked out for putting putting on a bit of

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    epistemic of deontic (Haan, 1995). The modal I am focusing on, “must” or “dolžen,” corresponds “semantically only to the root or “fictive” modals in English. This fact is the very core of great pedagogical difficulty in teaching these Russian modal auxiliaries to English speaking students” (Croft, 1975). Initially, it was challenging even finding articles about Russian modals. The articles I discovered did not have a comprehensive list of Russian modals which made it more difficult to understand. This

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    EMPHATIC “SO” So what it is about the word so that is so enticing? Is it used by so many people in so many different ways that it has become ambiguous, so to speak? This little word is so versatile that it can function as an adjective, adverb, conjunction, pronoun, or interjection, just so you know. It can also be used idiomatically, but so what? So you may ask, what's my point? I wouldn't pretend there was one if it weren't so, so here it is. OK, enough with the exaggeration. The point here is that

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    up the concept with other conditionals, they might talk about the possibility of dreams coming true (for example, the learner may say ‘if I study, I would go to university). Form: Some learners may not understand the use of auxiliary verbs, so some of the auxiliaries may be left out (e.g.

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    According to ELT and Greebaum’s The Oxford English Grammar (1996) English verb forms can be systematized under two huge categories, each of them includes sub-categories of forms. 1.Inflected forms: 1.1. Base Form of verbs: In English grammar a regular English verb has only on principal part, from which all following verb forms can be derived. This form is available in dictionary and is called base form. For example, base form is paint, the inflected forms are: paint, paints, painted, painting. Hence

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    will are verbs of ancient Germanic ancestry. In Proto-Indo-European, an inflected future tense existed, but that tense was lost in Germanic. In all Germanic languages, the future tense is formed with auxiliary verbs; this was the case in Gothic and the earliest recorded expressions of Germanic languages. The verb shall represents Old English sceal, and is cognate with Old Norse skal, German soll, and Dutch zal; these all represent *skol-, the o-grade of Indo-European *skel-. All of these verbs function

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    The structure falls into the more general category of double modals or multiple modals, that is, the use of two or more modal auxiliaries within the same verb phrase. However, in order to study pragmatic context and linguistic structure of double modals, other researchers compile naturally occurring double modals heard or overheard in conversations. Montgomery does find some difference in usage according to social class: although double modals are used by upper-, middle-, and lower-class speakers

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    CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS 1) The plane leaves at 10.00 tomorrow. a) Present simple; present form of the verb. b) Talking about a future event. ‘The present simple is used for ‘timetabled’ future events’ . c) Students may use the infinitive of the verb instead of the present. (F) Students may use ‘ing’ (present participle) form of verb. (F) Students may have difficulty understanding the use of the present simple to talk about the future. (M) Students may have difficulty

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    Parts Of Speech : Parts

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    2015 Parts of Speech Parts of speech are the basic words that English has. They are what we use every day in our life. There are a total of eight parts of speech but recently there has been another one added. The nine parts of speech are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, and interjection. It is important to be able to recognize and identify the different types of words in English, so that you can understand grammar explanations and use the right word form in the

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