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Jack, I can only go on the information you have given me, which is that you have been instructed to write this in the present tense. therefore I can only suggest that you write in the present tense! You have not been asked to re-write the article, but to say what influence Ann had on Margaret....

Hi All, Thanks a lot for all your replies! Yes, I’m really glad I finally asked the question. It has been bothering me for quite some time; I’m disturbed and ‘lost’ whenever I come across these tenses. And I was thinking: “How do I ask a question like this?” Yes, I do find the answers...

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...

Hi guys, I've heard of a new point of view of the term "tense". Some people say there're only 2 kinds of tenses in modern English grammar: Present and past tense. It's something odd to me because I've been taught that there're 12 tenses in English (Present simple, Present continuous, Present...

http://interview.monster.com/articles/sixmistakes/ Are these correct? What do they mean? 1. Creating your talent inventory refreshes your memory and helps you immediately remember experiences you would otherwise have forgotten during the interview. (What does it mean when I use past perfect...

http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20050311_190923_1488 1. James says if the NDP gets elected in the spring, she would increase the number of residencies for foreign trained doctors to 25 annually. (Is this a conditional wiht a modal verb? Is the modal verb acting as a...

Scenario: I'm talking about a movie. 1. The movie talks about firefighers and this guy in this movie is stuck inside this building with a fire. The floor collapsed and he fell down there and now he is down there and his whole life flashes back at him. Showing how his past life was , his best...

CJ Thank you a lot for the explanation. I down-loaded the two pdfs but I haven't read them yet. As I'm not familiar with linguistic terms, I'm afraid those articles would be quite hard to read through. But reading the article I found and your message, I noticed my first thought about...

It's interesting that the central modals can be grouped into related pairs that sometimes distinguish between past and non-past time. My thinking was just that, though they are related, they are not a single modal that's being inflected for tense. So, if they can refer to time, how does that...

"Linguists reserve the technical term "tense" for true inflection, . . . . . . I'm one, so yeah, I know. Cacarr, have you had a chance to read the article? Putting terminology aside, what is it about the distribution of modals that permits a change in time that's seemingly separate in...