A very interesting post. It somehow brought me back to the days of my youth. Oh, my first mistakes and false beliefs. And yesm aqua transmissa est and we should stay in touch with the current use of words. You said, "Здача УЧИТЕЛЯ научить ПРЕДМЕТУ. А не всей жизни.". So true! Additionally, I hate it when I'm forced to moralize or verbally "discipline" instead of doing my job which is to MOTIVATE, TEACH, ENLIGHTEN. ;)
so if you pay your attention to me, I'll try and make use of it:-)) I am a teacher myself, still I can't get the gist of the following point.Can you give me a better understanding of the matter(It's about The Subjunctive), so see the matter below: • No Tense Change In colloquial English, it is possible to not make a tense change: She demanded that he left. She felt that it was necessary that she wrote a thank you letter to them. I just can't get it, how come-they write about no time change, but the verbs are in the past form, so they canged their infinitive into that, so what is it? Please, help)))
If you ask me, I'd never say anything like "She demanded he left" (yes, Veikhman's book says it's possible). I'd rather use "wish" or re-phrase it altogether which will invariably (I think) entail employing the infinitive. ;) I presume people who use it simply destort the language confusing "demand" for "wish". So I can't even think of any term for the "left" as used in your examples. Oh, wait, the "left" is used in the function of 'it-should-have-been-a-bare-infinitive'??? ;)
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You said, "Здача УЧИТЕЛЯ научить ПРЕДМЕТУ. А не всей жизни.". So true! Additionally, I hate it when I'm forced to moralize or verbally "discipline" instead of doing my job which is to MOTIVATE, TEACH, ENLIGHTEN. ;)
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I am a teacher myself, still I can't get the gist of the following point.Can you give me a better understanding of the matter(It's about The Subjunctive), so see the matter below:
• No Tense Change
In colloquial English, it is possible to not make a tense change:
She demanded that he left.
She felt that it was necessary that she wrote a thank you letter to them.
I just can't get it, how come-they write about no time change, but the verbs are in the past form, so they canged their infinitive into that, so what is it?
Please, help)))
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I presume people who use it simply destort the language confusing "demand" for "wish". So I can't even think of any term for the "left" as used in your examples. Oh, wait, the "left" is used in the function of 'it-should-have-been-a-bare-infinitive'??? ;)
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too complicated for me anyway:-)
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