By Tenses, Genders

If an element of obligation was involved in her return: After we exchanged phone numbers and agreed that she should return at 3 pm, the baby was lying comfortably in the office. This can also be formulated in a more formal manner by using the subjunctive: After we exchanged phone...

Hi Bluealbatross, The simple rule is that the form of adjective doesn't change based on gender, number, and tense. For example, you can say They are attractive. She is attractive. Here, irrespective of gender,number and tense, the adjective 'attractive' can be used to describe the...

Yulysess wrote:Hi creolejazz, The rule you search lies, I think, in the grammatical unit called "Nominal Clauses/ Nominal-ing clauses, that is, participle clauses", or as pieanne illustrated above, gerunds. The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject. When a is subject...

The role of a women is not an easy task. This is especially the case when a women faces an evolutionary change in her life. Having the responsibility to nurture, to be strong for her family which means keeping morals and values as well as portray her discontent and restlessness that...

The role of a women is not an easy task. This is especially the case when a women faces an evolutionary change in her life. Having the responsibility to nurture, to be strong for her family which means keeping morals and values as well as portray her discontent and restlessness that make...

"How children are socialized today determines the destiny of society. Unfortunately, we have not yet learned how to raise children who can help bring about a better society." The speaker claims that the destiny of society is determined by how children are socialized today, however, we haven’t...

NC: Let me point out, JTT, that the issue at hand was whether "can't" could be used instead of "couldn't", so I have simply gone through the tenses, to identify where it was or not permissible, as well as stressing the varying functions of "just" with respect to the tenses, which teachers often...

It does help a lot if you have a good grammar book, one that really gives you all the rules but with plenty of interesting examples and illustrations. I'm not an English teacher so I don't know the title of such a book for English studies; maybe one of the other readers does. If you are...

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

This book looked promising – it was subtitled A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made by Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better – and in the first few pages I came across a passage referring to that group: What did these people study in high school...