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Subject: Re: Re:  Re: Easy languages
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 19:32:58 EST
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> ||    What necessary machinery does English lack?

Infinitives for the auxiliary verbs (can, will, &c.).

You have to use circumlocutions (to be able to, to be going to, ...) or bad
grammer (might could, ...).