In Simple past^x, Grammar^x

Allo pieanne, This is another lucky day for me. I have this question for a while. I read in my grammar book: After conjunctions, we often use simple past tenses instead of would. 1. It would be nice if she asked before she borrowed things. 2. He would never do anything that made...

Hi, I wrote this before I saw Khoff's post, so here's yet another point of view. And then one evening, after I had begged her to buy me a transistor radio, after she refused and I had sulked in silence for an hour,she said, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?"Here's the...

Excuse me, I have big question, I don't know hot to use JUST in the passive in the next exercise I'm going to write, OK! active voice: Michael has just finished the report, so passive voice: the report has just been finished by Michael the report has been just finished by Michael Thanks a...

Hello. I was reading jack112 threads because he had many questions on conditionals. I wanted to know more about mixed conditionals in particular, so I did a search on google. I came across a couple of sites, and I was wondering if you could verify the authenticity of their contents....

Hi Easyway, Jane was 'not expecting Billy', so when you re-arrange the wording you still need to say 'Not expecting Billy...'. You could say 'Jane had gone out to the grocery store ...' but it's not necessary here. The simple past is often used instead of the past perfect in sentences like...

Present perfect vs simple past has nothing to do with duration, but with time. If an action or event is definitely completed in the past (that is, it is clearly finished and there is no need to explain to the reader that it is finished), then use simple past tense: your job is finished and your...

"Lemon and Jack have learned some grammar" - it was just an example of how you could use the simple present perfect, Lemon. Of course you can say "They learned some grammar at school", for example, using the simple past. We use simple past to express something which happened in the past, and is...

Simple present perfect: e.g. I have worked have I worked? I have not worked 1. We use this to say that something in the past is connected with the present: "Lemon and Jack have learned some grammar" - They learned it in the past, but still know it NOW. "The company has opened a...

Hi, Ali. This is a really nice essay, and I know exactly what you mean about perfumes! You need a little atTention to your grammar, word order and tenses, so let's try and help out. You have used the present continuous for a lot. (the 'ing' form). When we write a story, it is usual to use the...

Pieanne wrote: 1. When you say "he hasn't come", it means that HE can still come, the possibility is open. You're in the present moment, it could be paraphrased by "he isn't here " 2. When you say "he didn't come", you are referring to the past, to some event where HE didn't come to at all....