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Goodman wrote: Yes, you may say that. However, is more of an idiomatic expression'', I think here idiomatic means that he is gone is very common expression to English speakers. Right? 2: Please explain the following sentence and shouldn't and are be used in front of used? All the...

There are TWO tenses in English language; present and past. There is no future tense. Let me clarify it.What is tense? Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines tense as: Any of the forms of a verb that may be used to show the time of the action or state expressed by the verb. Now what is...

Yoong Liat wrote: What is be? Is it simple Present tense form, Past Participle or what? According to the Collins Cobuild English Usage, be is the most common verb in English. It is used in many different ways. The present tense forms of 'be' are am, are and is, and the past tense forms are...

What is be? Is it simple Present tense form, Past Participle or what? According to the Collins Cobuild English Usage, be is the most common verb in English. It is used in many different ways. The present tense forms of 'be' are am, are and is, and the past tense forms are was and were. Be is...

Verb = swim Swam = past simple tense. Refers to actions/events in past time. "She swam a kilometre yesterday." No connection with present time. Swum = past participle. Used to form the pefect tense with auxiliary verb "have" - have/has/had + past participle = perfect tense. Note the...

Is this true that simple present tense is being used in passive voice in the following sentence, he is gone?Absolutely not! to go is an intransitive verb. Such verbs have no passive forms. Only transitive verbs can be placed in passive voice. gone is a past participle used as an adjective. ...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:What does (simple) future tense mean in this sentence? The grammarian (it is a grammarian, isn't it?) you're quoting would probably tell you that there is no future tense. Many linguists claim English has only two tenses: Past and Non-past (sometimes called present)....

One such grammatical distinction causing much confusion is the use of the modal auxiliaries ‘may’ and ‘might’. When used in the present tense, the two modals are almost transposable, as the difference between the two is merely a very small degree of certainty. However, it has become common...

I always thought it was a remnant of the French (Norman Invasion, 1066). There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with "to be" rather than "to have" in the passé composé (past) tense. Rise, born, arrive, leave, go (all "coming and going" verbs) are some examples. We also sing "He is...

Yoong Liat wrote:"I had no idea there are so many Japanese language schools here...""I had no idea there were so many Japanese language schools here..." The first sentence is correct because the sentence starts with "I had" ( a verb in the past tense). You say "I didn't know you were here"...