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    This document discusses various grammatical concepts including parts of speech, verb forms such as past participle and infinitive, modal verbs and auxiliaries, subject-verb agreement in terms of number, and semantic concepts like register, connotation, and collocation. It provides examples of correct and incorrect grammar to illustrate these concepts, such as using "fewer" instead of "less" with count nouns and distinguishing between modal verbs and modal auxiliary verbs.

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    This document discusses various grammatical concepts including parts of speech, verb forms such as past participle and infinitive, modal verbs and auxiliaries, subject-verb agreement in terms of number, and semantic concepts like register, connotation, and collocation. It provides examples of correct and incorrect grammar to illustrate these concepts, such as using "fewer" instead of "less" with count nouns and distinguishing between modal verbs and modal auxiliary verbs.

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    Correct Grammar Usage

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    Moez Lamti
    This document discusses various grammatical concepts including parts of speech, verb forms such as past participle and infinitive, modal verbs and auxiliaries, subject-verb agreement in terms of number, and semantic concepts like register, connotation, and collocation. It provides examples of correct and incorrect grammar to illustrate these concepts, such as using "fewer" instead of "less" with count nouns and distinguishing between modal verbs and modal auxiliary verbs.

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    Subject pronoun, adjectives, verbs etc

    Word grammatical class / part of speech

    Full verb + auxiliary verb

    Main/ lexical verb auxiliary verb

    Can, may etc are modal verbs

    Can, may etc are modal auxiliary verbs

    Base form

    Past participle form / past tense form

    Infinitive form

    ED form

    What if I wanted to go now?

    Aspects of meaning?

    Past is used but time reference is


    now. The past is used to show
    distance from reality: hypothesis
    Semantic meaning
    (dictionary)
    Register
    (formal/neutral/informalcolloquial)
    Connotation
    (negative/positive)
    Collocation

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