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Hi, The verb you're looking for is lie (lay, lain). present: I usually lie in bed waiting for... past simple: I lay in bed waiting for ... past progressive: I was lying in bed waiting for ... when ... The verb lay (laid, laid) is transitive, so you need an object; for instance, you could...

I'm not super experienced, but so far I can tell you it's probably (ii) She quickly rushed into the living room to when she heard the phone ringing. Because we're talking about a room, in this case a room you can go into.. and I think it should be ringing instead of rang,however...

Hello Goodman. «- I presume the "they" you refered to is the chefs, am I right?» Right, and I wondered what _you_ referred to with the "they" in your sentence... Now I see it were the take-outs! «2. But eating from a "box" an hour after it has been cooked is...

Hi Goodman, and thanks for the reply! Actually, I meant replacing it with the Past Simple: «But eating from a "box" an hour after they cooked (it — inserted by Ant) is not very appetizing to my stomach, unless I was starving» «It should be "Have been cook.." (present...

«To me, No. 1's use of past perfect sets the action to the time before some event» This is actually an example of the standard "No sooner" phrase. See, for example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1535_questionanswer/page61.shtml «2's use...

Can you provide some sentences wherein you're not sure which tense to use? As a general rule, use Past Simple when referring to the present and future simple — to the future. But since the former extends naturally into the latter, these tenses are sometimes interchaneable. "Lock the...

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

Can you please help me with what tenses these sentences are? eg. Past simple, perfect, continuous/progressive, etc. I know they are past tense (although the first could possibly also be present?), but unsure if they are simple, perfect, continous, etc. 1. At 9 o’clock the supermarket...

If I had known you would be late , I would've waited for you. I think this is correct. Can I say without changing the meaning, If I had known you were late , I would've waited for you. I think the fact that you were late is what the speaker already know right now, so the past...

Mister Micawber, I would like to thank you for the explanation.However, I have found one example of the present perfect tense which used the word "now" in the British council grammar test( http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-present-perfect-past-simple.htm...