Hi, 1. Let us say this was in quotation marks. How would you validate the use of the underlined tense? The people who built houses; their walls have crumbled, as if they had never been ! 2. TWO more questions: Does 'as if' in normal

Hi, Please correct this simple writing. I went to my uncle's house yesterday. There, I saw my aunt, who looked like she came back from shopping -- by looking at the shopping bags strewn about near the door when I entered his house. "They

"... when you have both finished" sounds awkward, is it a common sentential constuct? Yes, it's a normal construct And your sentence "What were the questions like?" looks good but can I also say "How were the questions like?"? No, but you could

User_gary wrote: The bus departure time was "1 p.m." , and we get off home only at 12.50 p.m., so we had to ran to catch/get the train. Can I use the word `catch' and `get' alternatively in this context? Yes

Try a search at http://www.google.com with: site:bbc.co.uk "at this time" and separately with: site:bbc.co.uk "at that time" (quotation marks are important) which will perform a search on that bastion of good English, the BBC

U¿ytkownik "Einde O'Callaghan" (Email Removed) napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci I think you've misread what Jay Dickson said. The word "replaced" is in quotation marks, i.e. he is telling the original poster that he

Leszek L. schrieb: I believe it should be "replaced" because "Jim did not ... agree with the tense of the rest of the sentence. Never mind the tense, "to be replaced" is the passive voice! And "should" is a modal

Believer wrote: Hi, Please tell me what (is) the difference is between these two forms of verb constructions? is given or is being given is discussed or is being discussed progressive and simple present tense in passive form Another

First, I think it should be I have had breakfast except in special contexts which would specififically call for a past tense, as in: I had breakfast with him three years ago . I have had breakfast s isn't idiomatical, IMO, and

Thank you GG and MH. You all(or 'two'?) are well at searching for something by search engine, but MH's skill seems better(or seems to be better?). Kiding(or 'just have a joke/kid.'?). Maybe you often use the search tools, just like me. Actually,