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If I had known this I would have done this is grammatically correct but if I knew this I would have done this is not correct or are they both correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.57.225.109 18:34, August 29, 2009 (UTC) Disagree vehemently with 1st bullet - the Brits have it right.
[49] [50] Baskervill and Sewell mention the common use of the singular they in their An English Grammar for the Use of High School, Academy and College Class of 1895, but prefer the generic he on the basis of number agreement. Baskervill gives a number of examples of recognized authors using the singular they, including:
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
The two main reasons for contractions are to make speaking quicker and to make writing quicker. Since changing "right" to "rt" only removes 3 characters, whilst changing "Honorable" to "Hon" removes 7, the correct course of action might be to classify "Honorable"=>"Hon" as a valid contraction, but "Right"=>"Rt" as invalid.
In the grammar of some modern languages, particularly of English, the perfect may be analyzed as an aspect that is independent of tense – the form that is traditionally just called the perfect ("I have done") is then called the present perfect, while the form traditionally called the pluperfect ("I had done") is called the past perfect.
The past tense form ought to have done that, ought to have worked, with a morphological change to the main verb, conveys the same information as the corresponding should have form in both cases. may can indicate either the mode of possibility or that of permission: possibility in the present or future: He may be there already, He may arrive ...
Do-support (sometimes referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms e.g. does), to form negated clauses and constructions which require subject–auxiliary inversion, such as questions.
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...