Modals

[banderas]

Originally Posted by Anglika

Ah well, some people just don't like the Oxford English Dictionary.

Originally Posted by riverkid

You can trash this one too. He suggests; "... For the long answer, take a look at Fowler (Modern English Usage) and the OED."

Originally Posted by riverkid

But you shouldn't offer him up to ESLs or anyone for that matter as an authority on the English language, Anglika.

I respect both of you as authorities and so why undermine one another?
I wonder if anyone would mind having look at my tread that is killing me because I have no answer to it.This is the link:
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...tags-must.html

[riverkid]

My attempt was not and is not to undermine Anglika. Anglika didn't write these books/articles/dictionaries/opinion pages.

When sources, the very sources that are the root cause of ESL confusion, are offered as reliable sources, [can I get one more 'sources' in there? ] someone must speak up.

I would expect no less from other teachers and students who disagree with anything I write in these pages.