ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: Tense

Clive — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:39:26 GMT

Hi again,

You wrote:

Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. The Present Perfect makes it sound like you did this before 7pm. Is that what you mean? If so, say 'By then . . . '. When did you do these things? You came right home after school, didn't you? Yes, the actions should happened after my coming from school at 7 p.m. How should I word the next sentences if they came after my coming from school? Just use Simple Past, ie say 'Then I will eat my dinner and play tennis for a while'. The word 'then' makes the sequence of events clear.

My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and will probably be rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes and listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came. I don't understand this last phrase that I've underlined. It might have been too long a sentence: I used the adjective 'very' to intimate the same occurance or ownership like "It is a song named "***" and it was a very song I listened to when I was here this very place last year" Then say '. . and listening to the very ( or very same ) song I listened to when I was here last year', or some similar phrasing.

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Tense

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:31:58 GMT

Thank you, Clive, for your help..

You wrote:

Re: Tense

Clive — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:21:41 GMT

Hi,

Please correct this.

My plan:

I am going to start working on my homework right after coming from school at 7 p.m. Then, I will have eaten my dinner and have played tennis for a while. My uncle is scheduled to come home at 8 p.m. and when he comes home as scheduled, I will be doing my homework since it will take more then an hour but less than two hours to complete my homework. When my aunt comes home at 9:30 p.m., I will probably have finished my homework and probably rocking on my lazy chair while humming my favorite tunes listening to the very song on a CD player from which the tunes came.

I am going to start working on my homework right after coming from school at 7 p.m.

Best wishes, Clive

Tense

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:53:38 GMT

Hi,

Please correct this.

My plan: