By Tenses, Grammar

It does help a lot if you have a good grammar book, one that really gives you all the rules but with plenty of interesting examples and illustrations. I'm not an English teacher so I don't know the title of such a book for English studies; maybe one of the other readers does. If you are...

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

Yes, "the professor said that mathematics wasn't easy" is the grammatically correct form and it is what should be said if you want to speak and write correctly. What I meant above is that to me personally this structure doesn't sound logical, and it is the only part of grammar that I would (and...

I also feel many times that reported speech rules should simply not be there, for the same reason as mentioned above, namely, that if something is constant in nature, I feel it's awkward to refer to it in the past. The professor told us: "Mathematics isn't easy". The professor told us that...

We've pretty much covered the apple, with all it's various different shades of meaning above. Your mention of "singular pronoun" is misleading, however. Everything would work out exactly the same if it had said "Our" instead of "My". The number of the pronoun is irrelevant here - only the number...

a1)Does she have a good sense of humor ? right grammar( i think) because "have" is being used as present tense. and "Has" for past tent. b2) What she has done to deserved this ? "has" is to be use because it is already in the past.

I choose " My favourite fruit is apples " " The cheapest food is cake. " She wanted to go to the library because she ( wanted ) to borrow books. ( the main clause and the subodinate clause should be in parallel in terms of the tenses )

Good Morning, I am an ESL teacher with a question from our grammar lesson today. Working with the simple past tense of regular verbs today, we encounter this guideline in our book: For a one-syllable verb ending in consonant + vowel + consonant, double the final consonant and add -ed:...

Grammar is the system and patterning by which language is organised. It is used to distinguish the "types" of words we use, such as the diferrence between verbs, nouns and prepositions, for example. It is also used to describe sentence structure and to classify the tenses of verbs, amongst...

thanks in advance for anyone willing to help me the sentence that needs to be corrected is: He's getting up at eight every morning. I corrected it by: He gets up at eight every morning or He is getting up at eight every morning. which one is better? What is the correct tense of this sentence...