Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2008

Dear experts,
I have always assumed that the "for V+ing" form was used to express the
cause of another action, while "to +V" was used to express aim, as in
the opposition between

The British government intends to pass a law allowing the production of
human-animal embryos for medical research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7308997.stm
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Scotland, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, described

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Just received the following joke ....
"After struggling for many hours deep within the forest of stately
hardwoods, the new lumberjack finally quit. He just couldn't hack it."
... and don't get it.

I was reading a magazine recently when I came across the sentence, "War is
evitable."  The truth or untruth of this proposition is not my point.  What
struck me was how infrequently the word "evitable" is used compared to the
word "inevitable".  Using the extremely unscientific ...

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Who turned out to be Hannah Montana in my front yard.

We can say: The guests *would/will have arrived by now.
I'm wondering if we want to change it into a question sentence, Can we
say:
*Would/Will the guests have arrived by now?

These leaves *will have turned red by next month.
This sentence is future perfect. I'm wondering if I can use other
modals to replace "will".  For example:
These leaves *could/*may/*might/*should/*would/*must have turned red

Couldn't this statement "I can't have too much" mean two different
things?
- "I can't have too much" as in "too much" would be what I can not
have, or is impossible for me to have.

Please Note:  This posting has the K alphabet replaced by the sanskrit
alphabet क, you will find more information about this when you read
the posting.
His Divine Grace A C Bhaकtivedanta Swami Prabhupada is the Founder &

Do Americans, like Britons, use the word "queue" to mean the kind of
array?
~Iain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3662928.stm
Is the Beeb slipping?

hey, the pic's for retards but georgie's a super-retard...
it's the same g who thought little miss sunshine was kiddie porn and
dakota fanning was a victim, or was that richa... or was it one of
stewe's wet dreams?

Spotted in our Sainsbury's, an aisle labelled
Baby
Toilet Paper
which made me wonder what one would do with such an article. I also