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Have and Have got Negative

Have/have got is a verb used to express states like possession, relationship, illnesses and the characteristics of people and...

Have to: Modals of Obligation

Have to is a type of auxiliary modal verb used to express certainty, necessity or strong obligation which comes...

Have: Auxiliary verb

Have as an auxiliary verb is used to form the present and past perfect tense in all of their...

How Many and How Much

How many is used to ask questions about the quantity of a countable noun.How much is used to ask...

Imperative in Passive Voice

Imperative clauses are used when people tell someone else to do something (an advice, a suggestion, a request, a...

Imperative Mood

The imperative is a structure used to give an order or command.

Inanimate Possessive Case in Time Phrases

The possessive case is used to talk about things that belong to a person, an animal or a thing.We...

Indefinite Articles

Articles are words that define nouns.We use indefinite articles to express non-specific things or general categories.

Indefinite Pronouns

Pronouns are words used to avoid the repetition of a noun.An indefinite pronoun does not refer to any specific...

Indefinite Pronouns: Something and Nothing

Indefinite pronouns do not refer to any specific person, thing or amount.Something refers to objects with unspecified quantity while...

Independent and Dependent Clauses

An independent clause is a group of words with a complete meaning, while a dependent clause is a group...

Indirect Closed Questions

We usually put indirect closed questions in the yes/no form.

Indirect Orders

We use indirect orders to avoid direct orders and when we want to make a request in a more...

Indirect Questions

Indirect questions are used in formal situations where we may need to ask something from someone we don’t know...

Infinitive

The infinitive is the basic form of a verb, and we use it to form other verbal tenses.

Intensifiers and Mitigators

Intensifiers and mitigators are two kinds of adverbs of degree. We use intensifiers to emphasise words or expressions, and...

Invariant Plural Nouns

A few/a little and few/little are quantifiers which mean some/enough or not enough.

Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives

There are some adjectives and adverbs with irregular comparative and superlative.bad (adj.); badly (adv.); worse; the worst

Irregular Plural Nouns

The plural form is used to indicate that there is more than one person, animal, place or thing. Some...

Irregular Plural Nouns: Borrowings

Borrowings or loanwords are some words whose origins come from other languages (source languages). So, some nouns don’t follow...

Like

Like, as a verb, is used to express things we enjoy and take pleasure in.

Like, Love and Hate

We use the verbs like, love and hate to express positive (love or like) or negative (hate) feelings about...

May and Might: Modals of Possibility

The verbs may/might belong to the group of modal auxiliary verbs.They are used to talk about the possibility of...

May: Modals of Possibility

May is a type of auxiliary modal verb used to express the possibility for something to happen and also...

Modal Verbs in Passive Voice

We can use passive voice with modal verbs too.

Modals Could and Need in the Past

We also Could and Need to talk about possibilities and to describe that something was different in the past.

Modals May and Might in the Past

The verbs may/might belong to the group of modal auxiliary verbs.When a situation had the possibility to happen in...

Modals of Probability

Modals of deduction and speculation are also called modals of probability. We find them when we want to make...

Modifiers of Comparisons

We can modify adjectives and adverbs in comparative forms in order to intensify the degree of certain words and...

Must and Cannot: Modals of Deduction

Must and cannot are modal verbs that can be used even to express deductions.

Must vs Have to???

Must and have to are used to express certainty, necessity or strong obligation which comes from internal or external...

Must: Modals of Obligation

Must is a type of auxiliary modal verb used to express certainty, necessity or strong obligation which doesn't come...

Narrative Tenses

We find narrative tenses in stories and past events.

No and Any

We find quantifiers such as no and any with countable and uncountable nouns.

No vs Not

No and not convey a negative meaning for clauses, words and expressions.