Quick Questions: General Permission vs Particular Action

Quick Questions: General Permission vs Particular Action

Are the following sentences right or wrong?

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Quick Questions: Modals, Can or Could?

Quick Questions: Modals, Can or Could?

Are these sentences correct or not?

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MIGHT HAVE vs COULD HAVE

MIGHT HAVE vs COULD HAVE

We use might have to say

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The infinitives of see and hear

The infinitives of see and hear

The infinitives of see and hear can be used to explain the reason for a false impression. The infinitive structure is usually followed by you’d think or a similar expression.

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Infinitive: Other Uses, I Came Home To Find

Infinitive: Other Uses, I Came Home To Find

Infinitive clauses can be used to say what somebody found out or learnt at the end of a journey or task.

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Infinitive + It's impossible for...to...

Infinitive + It's impossible for...to...

This structure is common with many adjectives expressing possibility, necessity, importance, urgency, frequency and value judgements.

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Infinitive + so as to / in order to

Infinitive + so as to / in order to

He got up early in order to have time to pack .  I watched him in order to know more about him.  I moved to a new flat so as to be near my work

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Perfect infinitive for 'unreal' past

Perfect infinitive for 'unreal' past

After some verbs (e.g. mean, be, would like ), perfect infinitives can refer to 'unreal' past situations that are the opposite of what really happened .

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Infinitive: Future Meaning

Infinitive: Future Meaning

When does infinitive  tell the future?

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Infinitive & Quantifiers

Infinitive & Quantifiers

Quantifiers like enough, too much/many/little /few, plenty etc are often followed by noun + infinitive.

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Infinitive & Purpose

Infinitive & Purpose

An infinitive can be used after a noun , or an indefinite pronoun like something, to explain the purpose of a particular thing :

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Nouns related to verbs: no wish to change

Nouns related to verbs: no wish to change

We can use infinitives after some nouns which are related to verbs that can be followed by infinitives (e.g. wish, decide, need ).

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Infinitives and Superlatives

Infinitives and Superlatives

Superlatives can be followed by infinitive structure.

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Infinitive Without To

Infinitive Without To

When two infinitive structures are joined by and, or, except, but, than, as or like , the second is often without to .

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Real Indirect Speech: Rules vs Meaning

Real Indirect Speech: Rules vs Meaning

Real indirect speech Exercises in books like this are useful for practising the grammar of indirect speech, but they are necessarily rather artificial.

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Subjunctive: Talking about Possibilities

Subjunctive: Talking about Possibilities

Many languages have special verb forms that are used to talk about possibilities rather than facts. In European languages these are often called 'subjunctives'.

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