Yes Honestly - The Complete Series 1 [DVD]

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You say: “ You either have it or you get it”. “I got it yesterday”. “I have it today.”– Do you seriously mean I can’t get it today and I couldn’t have had it yesterday? That really is bizarre. You’re confusing the verbs’ semantic content (what they mean) with their usage in compound verb forms as or with auxiliaries have can be used as both auxiliary and root verb, whereas ‘get’ cannot be used as an auxiliary. That’s why you can say I had had without Microsoft Word underlining it in red to suggest that you delete the repeated word. NIKKI- Now, we are joined today by one of the founders of the Forgotten 500,000 campaign, Mark Oakley, and Paul Howard, CEO of Lupus UK, which is also calling on the government to make Evusheld available. Hello both of you.

NIKKI- Late nights with Tracey and Fox. Well, until next week everyone, we’ll see you later alligator. NIKKI- We’ve actually got some voice notes here from some of the people you talk about who are part of the Forgotten 500,000 campaign, so let’s have a little listen to that now: HUW- Yes, honestly. I said this in an interview and people said, ‘Oh I don’t believe anybody said that’. Well, they actually did say it. But the only thing I’d say is they were a one-off. You’re always going to get some idiot somewhere to say something like that.At the end of the day, you want to teach them practical English, and not by the book English. Unless you are teaching a linguist, to whom the intrinsic nature of these language details might be important for whatever research reasons. But then again, he or she would not necessarily enrol in an ESL course but maybe something more challenging. My 2 cents is, we are here to help non native speakers acquire the level of fluency needed in today’s demanding world, not to over complicate things and confuse them. Trust me: in business English, the simpler the better, in any way imaginable, grammar, vocab, expressions, etc. Any non native who wishes to acquire a higher level of English, will never go for an ESL lesson with a TEFL teacher… trust me. :) I’m an absolute non native language trainer, so… really, my 2 cents only. Reply PAUL- So, Evusheld is a preventative prophylaxis treatment, so it’s two types of antibody that can fight COVID-19. And it’s designed for people who can’t get protection from vaccines so that they can have this treatment instead and it will give them protection against COVID-19. It would be useful to know if students are penalised one way or the other for these alternative usages – because to win the game, it helps to know how to play the game! I bet this varies from place to place, examiner to examiner! PAUL- Vaccines what they do is encourage your immune system to create its own antibodies against the virus. Whereas in people who are immune suppressed or immune compromised their immune system doesn’t recognise the vaccine and produce those antibodies. What Evusheld is it’s just giving you those antibodies straightaway so that they are then in your body and your own immune system doesn’t need to create them. We Americans once learned this throughout elementary, middle and junior high school. The declining of grammar usage is despicable and even pervades most of today’s authors. Grammar is the verbal (linguistic) mechanism which helps to preserve the habit of forethought. Lucia, to respond to your quandary, “ I’ve a car” is a possible, grammatically correct usage; however, it’s pragmatically hard to imagine. It’s foreseeable to be practical when many people need to sequentially state or affirm that they have something; however, communicating via writing, in itself, may preclude the above scenario and repeated use of I’ve an object. Reply

I suppose John nagged me from day one to try and be a tidier chef. So probably to be a much tidier cook and to be more organised in my cooking and in my timings. I also took a picture of all of my ingredients for the final and wrote a list to make sure I had everything. By switching on and off each element you can create all possible verb forms: I work = present – so there is no past, no negative, no modal, no perfect, no progressive and no passive, all that remains is subject and verb in the present tense (although the full form still has an auxiliary which we will need to use for past and negative forms – I do work).

The formula for constructing this type of sentence is present auxiliary plus past participle, not present aux. plus past tense. Jon and Lucia, do you teach your students to say “ Today, I have saw a car or I have ate a pizza, today?” Well, if not, then please don’t teach them to use have-present aux. with got-past tense verb. Even though I, myself, often use it for comic, emphatic or obvious, grammar-abandoning reasons, or, even, simple laziness, I would never use it in the classroom or use it when teaching, unless as an example.