Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

The Future Tense

There is no obvious future tense in English corresponding to the time/tense relation for present and past. Instead there are several possibilities for denoting future time.. Futurity, modality and aspect are closely related, and future time is rendered by means of modal auxiliaries or semi-auxiliaries, or by simple present forms or progressive forms.
The future and modal functions of the auxiliaries SHALL and WILL can hardly be separated, but SHALL and, particularly, WILL are the closest approximation to a colourless, neutral future. WILL for future can be used in all persons, whereas SHALL for first person is ;argely restricted.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Common Errors in English

One of the basic principles of English grammar is that there should be agreement between subject and verb.A singular subject should be followed by a singular verb, while a plural subject should be followed by a plural verb. For example, 'No news are good news' should be written as 'No news is good news.'.  Similarly,  'His hair are white' should be 'His hair is white.' Other examples will follow.