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Use of "do" as a pro-predicate is almost exclusively British usage. [23] Example: "Did Frank love it?" — "He must have done." [24] The AmE response would be "He must have." omitting the form of "do". The BrE usage is commonly found with all forms of "do", for example: [23] I have done. I haven't done. I will do. I might have done. I could do.
Sue has been to the beach. (as above; Sue went to the beach at some time before now) Sue has been on the beach. (use of been simply as part of be; she spent time on the beach) The sentences above with the present perfect can be further compared with alternatives using the simple past, such as: My father went to Japan.
The development of ain't for the various forms of be, have, will and do occurred independently, at different times. The use of ain't for the forms of be was established by the mid-18th century and for the forms of have by the early 19th century. The use of ain't is a continuing subject of controversy in English.
Clothe is a verb and refers to the action of putting on clothes that have been created using (usually) cloth. Clothes are garments that have been manufactured, usually using cloth. [38] Standard: I will look for a clothes shop to purchase some garments to wear. Standard: At the local cloth shop I can purchase fabric to sew some garments.
Tech billionaire and DOGE Chair Elon Musk previously used his "what did you get done this week" question with the former CEO of Twitter before Musk purchased and gutted the social media giant.
subject I + habré future of haber will have + hablado past participle spoken yo {} habré {} hablado subject + { future of haber } + {past participle} I {} {will have} {} spoken The future of haber is formed by the future stem habr + the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. The past participle of a verb is formed by adding the endings -ado and -ido to ar and er / ir verbs, respectively ...
Fittingly, timing has been a theme throughout Metronome’s arc. The company was founded in 2019—a moment when usage-based billing was far from hot. “We were second-time entrepreneurs, ...
The have-perfect developed from a construction where the verb meaning have denoted possession, and the past participle was an adjective modifying the object, as in I have the work done. [15] This came to be reanalyzed, with the object becoming the object of the main verb, and the participle becoming a dependent of the have verb, as in I have ...