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Hi,I think all these are correct.1.I hope you had a great summer.2.I wish you had a great summer.3.I hope you have a great summer.4.I hope you will have a great summer.What is puzzling me is that I heard that you should use present or future tenses with the sentences with the word 'hope'...

Hi,When the repair person (A) had completed her work (B) was fixing the PCs in our office, she (C) put away her tools and (D) wrote out a bill for the supervisor.The answer key says (B) is incorrect but doesn't tell me what to change, so I think it could be corrected as follows:1. fixing2. to...

When the repair person (A) had completed her work (B) was fixing the PCs in our office, she (C) put away her tools and (D) wrote out a bill for the supervisor.The answer key says (B) is incorrect but doesn't tell me what to change, so I think it could be corrected as follows:1. fixing2. to...

Of course they wouldn't say that, Jim. Most don't even know what the names of verb tenses/forms are. That's the reason I specifically mentioned people who are NOT English (ESL) teachers. I'll grant you that a single difference in usage might slip by unremarked, but repeated or...

I think we'd be more likely to use the infinitive. help him lift the crate, rather than Shall I help him lifting the crate.People often use it in the past tense, as I helped her doing the housework, meaning I helped her by / in doing the housework, or I helped her while she was doing the...

Hello JustForFun, It is NOT the "if" or the "almost" that requires the past tense -- it's the "just now." "Just now" means the action is in the past. That requires the past tense.

I almost died when I crossed the road just now .. I almost peed on my pants just now / I almost die when I crossed the road just now .. I almost pee on my pants just nowIf I didn't go tomorrow then she will be angry / If I don't go tomorrow then she will be angry ?

I think non-natives make too much of a big deal of this. If I were to say to you "Somebody's shot the president"or you were to say to me "Somebody shot the president" it is very unlikely either of us would conciously register it or find it unnatural, and certainly neither...

Hi HuevosIf you are a native speaker, then I'm sure you also realize that a native speaker will understand whether that 'sss' sound is there or not. In other words, a native speaker knows whether someone is saying somebody's or somebody. What I'm saying is that in the scenario...

Past perfect is fine here. There was a simple past tense event which the "had intended" preceded: " space constraints".