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Are you talking about what happened when a crisis happened in the past, or are you creating a strategy for dealing with any future crises? I think you mean the second, so avoid using past tense. Also, if this is for your specific company it sounds odd to keep using 'the company'. If, however,...

Grammar Geek wrote: I would agree with you Yoong Liat, if he the writer still does assume that. Perhaps he was talking about the assumptions he made when he began his spiritual journey? Grammar Geek As I have indicated, all the other verbs are in present tense, so I'm certain when the...

Hi Inchoateknowledge, A finite clause is a clause that has either present/past tense or a modal verb. What he did has a past tense which means it is a finite clause. An object complement, or object predicative, is a clause element that occurs after the direct object and characterises the...

CalifJim wrote: In actual practice, the use of the past perfect quite frequently violates the mathematically precise timelines set out for it in grammar books! It is merely an indicator that something happened in the context of something past. Now the problem is that this past point of view...

In actual practice, the use of the past perfect quite frequently violates the mathematically precise timelines set out for it in grammar books! It is merely an indicator that something happened in the context of something past. Now the problem is that this past point of view has to be...

Mountain wrote: I was talking to a friend about his last semester and I wanted to ask him me: you guys did have/had to do chapter 14? I didn't know rather to use have or had and I'm always confused if I should used past tense when I use "did" in a sentence. Thanks (grammar) You can say...

1. I think a grammar guide noted that the structures of "noun + present or past participle" and "adjective + present or past participle" need to be hyphenated. Good, but sometimes I have difficulty distinguishing whether a word is a past participle like the one below: ZZZ related materials ...

Alienvoord wrote: thanks CB. The labels may not be important, but if we are to understand the structure of English, it's important to understand that the verb form used in your first example has a quite different distribution from the forms in your second and third examples. Calling them...

Hello CB and Alienvoord, Firstly I thank you for your answer. 2 and 5 mean to me that the distinction between tenses does not apply to subjunctives. So in subjunctive mood either the past tense "was to be" or the present "be" may refer to the same (future) event. "It is strange but it...

Hi Int, here are my examples of simple past tense "have" When I was a child I have so many toys. You are not forming the past tense correctly here. I had / you had / he, she, it had / we had / they had I have been in New York last year. What you are using here is Present...