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Interesting points. I'm an ESL teacher in TN and found your article by doing a search on using "the present tense to express routine." I've been thinking about doing more drills that tie together the present tenses, not just simple present, but emphatic (if that's what you call it), and...

Jackson, rather than attempting to answer your questions one by one... A steak knife is a utensil used to cut meat.A steak knife is a utensil that is used to cut meat.A steak knife is a utensil and it is used to cut meat.A steak knife if a utensil and is used to cut meat. All of these are...

Goodman wrote: Yes, you may say that. However, is more of an idiomatic expression'', I think here idiomatic means that he is gone is very common expression to English speakers. Right? 2: Please explain the following sentence and shouldn't and are be used in front of used? All the...

1: They are worth it. 2: We are proud of ourselves. 3: I am sorry. Jackson, the main thing you need to know here is that the words worth, proud and sorry are not verbs and not participles. Worth, proud and sorry are adjectives.The only verb in your sentences is the verb 'be' (in the simple...

Now I understand that Past Participle can be used as an adjective like gone in he is gone. Note that the past participle can be used as an adjective. That is, a verb form called a past participle can function in place of an adjective. Therefore, I have no problem with sentence he is gone....

In other words, Jackson, in the context of your sentence, 'shown' can only be understood as being in the past. However, you can also use 'shown' this way:When shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie. = When I am shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie.Now there is a present tense meaning...

simple Present Tense form: have/has I have, you have, she has etc. simple Past Tense form: had I had, you had, she had etc. Past Participle: had I have had, she has had etc. They can be adjectives ,too e.g. changed car, washed...

Hi, Im not a guru here, but I still would like to join you in this.While I was waiting in line, the woman ahead of me asked if I'd heard about the president's being shot. (past progessive. Action in progress at specific past time & second action interrupted it.) I told her she must/ might be...

In Mary is cooking dinner you are using present continous simple Present tense form of be for third person. I'm exclusively talking about only be. Other usage: The examples you gave here are future passive construction. Based on that, the answer is yes. I am honored to be given this...

In Mary is cooking dinner you are using simple Present tense form of be for third person. I'm exclusively talking about only be. Examples: I'm going to be given honorary title. You will be given enough money that you won't have to worry about the rest of the year.