5 I buy some new batteries for the remote control tomorrow In simple sentences, the simple present can't usually be used with future-time indicators. Because it gives the habitual present tense feel and then gets to a specific instance. Fine:

on 06 Nov 2003: You're over-thinking this, or something. Subordinate clauses in English that ... when satellites are in a lower orbit." "When pigs fly." I agree with all of that, and I was aware of the common idiom when I wrote

I need to do this exercise for tomorrow. One of the sentences is correct, the remaining 9 are wrong. Can ... and tellwhich one is correct? 1 I'm going to go out with you on Saturday if you'd like me to. "I'll go out with

Auxiliary verbs are "be, have, will" because those are the ones which are needed to built up all the tenses except simple present and simple past: I HAVE seen a rainbow. I WAS writing a letter. I WILL go to Brussels tomorrow. I HAVE BEEN

When people (usually Americans) say "I got it" (e.g. if ... got it"? I know I am, when I say it. No, and that's a rather easy one to demonstrate. In US English I get it I got it I have ... think you need to broaden your mind to

It's like tomorrow I have an appointment with my hairdressers or my dentist. I suppose that when a time is arranged you use the simple present. The same would apply to train timetables.

After every day you should use the simple present in order to describe the actions you do regularly.

be Not obscure. Next week I get married and we leave on our honeymoon. We'll send you a postcard. Interesting. I hope someone will explain why Karl couldn't say, and I couldn't say, "We send you a postcard." Strictly

The rule says that the verb has to be changed in reported speech because you refer to an action in the PAST, something it was SAID. In this case, Sharon "made" comments and you are reporting it. Sharon: A and B: Your comments don't really

>We told Sharon that her comments didn't really relate to the key issues at hand. is correct. I think, the direct speech sentence is in simple present: "Your comments don't relate to the key issues." When the "introduction"part of a