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Diamondrg wrote Which do you think is correct At the time Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty __ a he took advice on the construction of the metal from Gustave Eiffel YESb a ferry from Battery Park takes people there every thirty minutes The tense is wrong The statue was designed in...

What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here There is no simple past in the second clause Even if you answer vacuumed not had vacuumed the form you are using vacuumed is not the simple past but the past participle which forms a past perfect tense when combined...

Hi What is the difference among them Which one s would you use A BEFORE 1 I brushed my teeth before I had gone to bed No reason to use PP Just use simple past 2 I brushed my teeth before I went to bed Yes 3 I had brushed my teeth before I went to bed No reason to use PP because sequence of events...

Hello I am trying to figure out the following passage By the time I got home my children had already done the dishes and vacuum the floor I am wondering should I put and vacuumed the floor or and had vacuumed the floor What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here...

Clive wrote The meeting of the two people was a brief and very finite event so I d change the tense in the when clause to simple past ie I first met Lisa three years ago when we worked at a radio station together Other than that the sentence sounds fine to me I was taught before that if a brief...

Hi The meeting of the two people was a brief and very finite event so I d change the tense in the when clause to simple past ie I first met Lisa three years ago when we worked at a radio station together Other than that the sentence sounds fine to me Best wishes Clive

Hi What is the meaning of like in those sentences please and when do we use it in speech if it is common Many young people constantly use like in their speech patterns It fills a pause while they think it makes their speech less decisive and thus more polite in a sense and most of all it s just a...

Hello Janissary 1 If a clause begins with a negative adverb inverted word order must usually be used with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be or the first auxiliary In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to be the...

1 Jenny talks as if she knows everything Jenny talks like a person who knows everything but you aren t saying whether Jenny really knows everything or not I agree 2 Jenny talks as if she knew everything Jenny talks like a person who knows everything but she doesn t really know everythingThere is...

so many things have been said so far but still I don t understand 1 whether when and while are the same thing when they are used in front of a sentence in the past continuous When While I was watching TV the electricity went off Is there a difference in meaning OK Jim said when I was studying and...