In this topic I am going to deal with the expression of time. I am going to divide my topic into four different sections. First, I will look at the expression of time through verbs. In my second section I will deal with the expression...
First of all we have to make a distinction between auxiliary verbs (do, be, have) which are used to form the tenses of ordinary verbs, and modal auxiliary verbs, which are auxiliary verbs but also convey modal meaning (possibility, probability, future, condition, etc)...
Unit 18 is prima rily aimed to examine in English the different ways of expressing time reference in terms of temporal relationship and frequency , namely achieved by means of prepositions, and also by adverbs, adjectives, noun phrases and other clause structures...