In Paragraphs^x, Past perfect^x

Thanks you, Jim! Here goes the whole paragraph: «Day after day, through all that August, morning and evening were wrappedin haze; day after day the earth shimmered in the heat, and the air wasstrange, unfamiliar. As he wandered in the lanes and sauntered by thecool sweet verge of the woods, he...

Hi, 1. Past Perfect Not a good idea for the paragraph we are looking at. generally, it's a common error to use Past Perfect when Simple Past is better. 2. (would+V2): I would ride... Yes, that's OK, if you want to write about 'past habits/routines'. Best wishes, Clive

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry If...

In the first paragraph of his famous novel, Tim O'Brien writes: Billy Boy Watkins was dead, and so was Frenchie Tucker. Billy Boy had died of fright.... Since the event described in the second sentence happened earlier in time than the event in the first sentence, past perfect seems the obvious...

Hi guys, I had brushed my teeth before I went to bed, but now they felt all furry again. You can certainly say this. The PP is not necessary, as 'before' makes the timing obvious, but using PP adds emphasis to the timing. It's the speaker's choice in such a case. I also very much agree with...

Dear friends, It is a question that I have seen already in a German forum. It is most interesting. It is my opinion however that it is not possible to say which sentence is correct. It is further my opinion that it is the greater perspective of the paragraph that we must consider in the...

The language of media is a bit different, both in vocabulary and grammar, than the normal writing. One of the differences is the tense, as you've mentioned. If the time of the event, state,... is past, the tense of the sentence is present; if it is past perfect, then the sentence is past; and you...

Goldmund wrote: Speaker B says "I just found this website." *He found the website recently. In British English you may also say «I have just found this website». "I’ve not looked at it much yet." *He expects to look at it again, therefore he uses the present perfect. The present...

Hi Paco, I'll try. #1 The PP sets the timeframe to before this last hold-up. It's the 'since' that expresses the continuity of the activity in that timeframe. #2 to #4 why did the writer use past perfect tense for them? Did he/she use it to shift the time back to the point Jesse and his gang...

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...