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When he returns to Manhattan 1000 years later it has been destroyed and rebuilt three times 2 What

Pemmican wrote:As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present...

Hi milky. (Have you given up our discussion on modal auxiliaries?) Tense is used for more than just time I think it's a good point. Quine once said: Our ordinary language shows a tiresome bias in its treatment of time. Relations of date are exalted grammatically (..). This bias is of...

Hello Vincent The correct sentences are: 1. Is this correct? 2. Is the above attachment the right file? Here, you are using the verb 'to be' as your main verb. However, if you want to ask a question in the simple present with another (non-modal) verb, you can use 'to do' as an auxiliary: 3....

Of course I don't mind your asking I don't know what your first language is, but in my country, Spanish speakers find it difficult too to understand that the "s" is necessary to form the simple present of a verb for the 3rd. person singular. The reason is that we associate the addition of an "s"...

Hi, Andrei "He looks up the word in the dictionary" is a grammatically correct sentence in the simple present tense. "He look up..." is incorrect because there is no tense or modality implied in the verb. You are using the 'base' form of the verb, the infinitive. In other words, the verb is...

I don't really understand the question either... Konstantin, you're referring to the Conditional with your German example. Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German, which however, can be replaced by the Conditional (would+infinitive). In...

As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present participle d)...