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No, I didn't know that. We are all here to learn and I don't think my English is much better than yours. In this case, you certainly know better than me. I just googled for "that the sun was a star" / "that the sun is a star" and found that both have similar number...

Hi AvangiTo me, the word 'if' is used like 'whenever' in your sentence, and the word 'will' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on vacation)....

Hi, So it is simple present okay for report writing? No. Very generally speaking, a report should normally use past tense, because it is reporting past events. eg Heat was applied to the chemical. At 40 degrees, it ignited. eg When I searched the robber, I found he had a gun in his pocket. I...

Hi,I call it subjunctive, which is pretty much what I call everything that seems to be a past tense but doesn't refer to the past.I wish I knew his number (...but I don't know).I wish I could drive (...but I can't).That's why I said there's something hypothetical in those...

Ant_222 wrote:No help from your last post, but after re-reading our little conversaton over I have come up with a reolutionary hypothesis! The problem is that there're two possible omisions: 1. There are time when... (and one has to use present tenses, as I argued) 2. There are times which......

Hello: I am new to the site (was led here by a search engine) and am surprised to see a number of grammatical errors in and around the site in general. I haven't looked everywhere, but below you will find a list of the ones that I noticed right off the bat: The site mistakenly uses, in many...

Hi MarvinI made my comment about the present perfect because I think it would be far more likely for someone speaking AmE to use the simple past tense (I broke a/my tooth or I broke one of my teeth), and because I felt quite sure that the simple past tense is what I'd use most often in a sentence...

Anonymous wrote: Could you please, check if all the sentences below are correct ? a) In the end of the week, my friend returned home; b) After the visit, my friends told me that my country impressed them most; c) The sport classes take me lots of time! (or:...take lots of my time) ?; d) ...

In the early Church, Christians would celebrate the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ (known as the saint's "birth day") by serving an All-Night Vigil, and then celebrating the Eucharist over their tomb or place of martyrdom. In the fourth century, neighbouring dioceses began to transfer...

This situation is a little different than your type III conditional formula is intended for. The speaker is not in Ian's position, so the phrase is a "condition contrary to fact". In that situation a formal speaker or writer would use the subjunctive mood of the verb rather than indicative or...