In Articles^x, Tenses^x

Improving your motivation Before you start reading, you should know this: Learning English requires action. You may know all the learning tips, but if you don't start doing things, you will achieve nothing. Therefore our method is not just for reading; it is for reading and doing. You need...

Hello MePedantic. Please don't feel sorry, I don't mind. At least I'm not writing an article for dictionaries. I asked that quite accidentaly, without any researches, so now I feel a kind of responsibility. I found such a explanation ... maybe they are close to the intended meaning? A thing...

Hello MePedantic. Please don't feel sorry, I don't mind. At least I'm not writing an article for dictionaries. I asked that quite accidentaly, without any researches, so now I feel a kind of responsibility. I found such a explanation ... maybe they are close to the intended meaning? A thing...

Anonymous wrote: Is the following correct? E.g.: I'm going to go to the beach. Possible to have two "go"s in this sentence? (The article "the" is needed) The tense is correct: It's the so called "going-to-Future". The 1st "to" (I'm going TO go to the beach) is part of...

Dear MrPedantic, yulysess, and Roro, We have opened several issues in this thread. I would like to go over some of them and state what my thinking is about them now that we have discussed them. MrPedantic's original post asked why very and much cannot be used equally,...

"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...

Hello, Normally, I don't use the definite article in sentenses such as: Save the file in PDF format. Convert the document into Word format. Is it correct? If so, I'm a bit curious why? There is only one and only format we call PDF (or Word, for that matter), so it should be...

Hello again Hela ...If ever you read my translation into English of the article from "Le Monde",...which mark would you give me?... I wouldn't get very many marks, if anyone were to mark my marking...But here are my (BrE-ish) comments instead! First I've given the original sentence;...

I went to Circuit City, one of the electronic shops in the area, for a new portable PSP product from SONY which *have (agreement) just *been released. I *was a mystery shopper who *wants (tense) to buy one of *this hottest PSP, which *could play movieS, music, and video games in one single...

Thank you MrP for your guidance. Paco, Thank you for the text I'll study the use of articles there. And if there's something I don't understand, I'll come back to you and MrP, as usual... Now, if ever you come across texts on the web that can be used as a grammar exercise (tenses,...