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Darkness
Joined: 12 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: "won't" explanation |
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A co-worker of mine is trying to figure out what part of the speech "won't" is. I have no F'n clue.
Does it imply future intention? Is it present continuous? |
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branchsnapper
Joined: 21 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Will is usually called an auxiliary verb - a modal one. Not is sometimes called a negator. Won't is a contraction of the two.
It may but needn't imply future (non) intention. It isn't continuous. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Yep.
It could be a contraction Simple Future 'Interrogative Negative' form
and a Simple Future tense in the negative form.
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| nobbyken wrote: |
Yep.
It could be a contraction Simple Future 'Interrogative Negative' form
and a Simple Future tense in the negative form.
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Future is not a tense. |
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Netz
Joined: 11 Oct 2004
Location: a parallel universe where people and places seem to be the exact opposite of "normal"
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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| nvm, the porn spammer got ALL of our [img] privileges revoked:( |
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