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PASTEL wrote: MrP! How are you? I'm glad to see you again. Wow, how long did it take you to squeeze those examples? If I read it more than twice, I'm going to faint to the ground. I assure you, I will. I have a new question. Ready?! Tim ____ early before he reaches...

Advanced Grammar in Use, Unit 13 We use the present simple in that- and wh- clauses when both the main clause and the that-/ wh- clause refer to the future. We don't use will in the that-/ wh- clause in this kind of sentence. I'll let you know when she gets here. (not...when she will get...

Hello Mr Pig (Are you any relation to El Porco Rosso?)-- 1-- I went home. (affirmative past declarative) I did go home (affirmative past intensive declarative) I didn't go home. (negative past declarative) Did you go home? (affirmative past interrogative) Didn't you go home?...

The conjunction 'you're' means 'you are', and that works equally well with no.1 and no.2. No.3 cannot work. It would have to be, 'Why would you ask for his number if you were with your boyfriend?' No.4 could possibly work if we render an unorthodox reading of the conjunction 'you're' to...

Do these have the same meaning? And what's the difference when I use 'if' versus 'when' ? 1. Why would you ask for his number if you're with your boyfriend? 2. Why would you ask for his number when you're with your boyfriend? 3. Why did you ask for his number if you're with your boyfriend?...

Introduction The title of the book is commissariat with its content of exploring three areas of spiritual warfare that parallels a Christian’s life. Those areas explored are: the mind, the church, and the heavenly places. It provides foundational insight, wisdom, and discerning the...

The number of English tenses depends on how one defines "tense". If one defines it as morphemes of verbs, English has only two tenses: past and present. paco

Hmm.. Luigio, you are right! It IS spelt like that in other countries! Well done!!! There's a big BIG world out there to explore, and rather a lot more countries use British English than use American. This is what askoxford.com has to say; -- Learnt, learned These are...

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;...

Finite verbs are inflected for tense, person or number; nonfinite verbs are not. Nonfinite verbs are the infinitive (to do), and the unaccompanied 'ing' and 'ed' forms. What we are actually concerned with here, however, are finite and nonfinite clauses (i.e. those including finite and nonfinite...