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Hi Yoong gt gt The children s mother had been looking after them but since she passed away their father has has had to look after them I don t like that past perfect Without any context I see you are talking from a present point of view now present situation the father has to take care of the...

Buddhaheart wrote He had lived in London since he had left Cambridge I prefer the 1st version w the modifications indicated I don t think the past perfect construction in the since clause in your 2nd sentence serve any useful function However I do see this kind of construction in some grammar...

He had lived in London since he had left Cambridge I prefer the 1st version w the modifications indicated I don t think the past perfect construction in the since clause in your 2nd sentence serve any useful function However I do see this kind of construction in some grammar book

Believer wrote Hi CoolBreeze Can you tell me more in detail whether the sentences you used are in the subjunctive They don t look to be in the subjunctive mood He speaks as if as though he knew about it looks like a normal sentence with the underlind verg in the past tense and doesn t seem to be...

Grammar and exercises are only requirements of the syllabus not of learning a language Did you learn the grammar of your mother tongue when you were acquiring it Most of you may still not know the grammar of your mother tongue but you speak it effortlessly If grammar means identifying the names...

Eeuw Melted brains are so unsightly You said that loved can refer to the present Can it also refer to the pastYes There is always an end to the backshift process the point where you run out of tenses that refer to an even more distant point in time In this case I wouldn t feel comfortable going...

SeekerOfPeace wrote In the following sentence The local peasants gave the soldiers clothes and food without which they would have died of cold and hunger I know the answer is would have died but I can t explain it grammatically It looks like subjunctive to me but which kind is it Without which...

Hi Ireland tied their debut World Cup match against Zimbabwe the third time a tie had occurred in the World Cup Questions refer to red coloured statement 1 Shouldn t that sentence be the third time a tie has occured in the World Cup No had is correct Let s say that this tie by Ireland was on...

To my knowledge the question form if clause is mostly used in type III conditional expressing unrealized situations The past perfect is used Had he had a dog he would feed it on sirloin

In all the cases you present the writer has the choice of present or past simple in the reported clause because the statements all still hold true at the moment she believed in God when she told him and she believes in God today that is the necessary logical assumption of course None of those...