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Thanks Jim, hmm, this is confusing though. I was thinking some more about this, and I thought that this was just another kind of reported speech. So, I thought I could use either present or past tenses, depending on where I want to put the emphasis. For example, I'd usually say "I('ve) always...

Hi Hiro Yes, you can use the simple past tense and an adverb such as often or regularly to indicate that something didn't happen often in the past (and therefore was not habitual). The negative form of "used to" is often used when something was not habitual in the past, but is habitual now: He...

It was only 10 days ago that the accident happened. It is only 10 days since the accident happened. When the sentence has two clauses like this, and is viewed from the present time, ago is preceded by the simple past tense (was), and since by the present or present perfect tense ( is, has...

«You can say 'is' when it is an adjective, but you have to say 'was' when it is a verb.» One may ask how they can determine whether it's a verb or an adjectove. I'd like to provide my view on it. 1. The chair was broken yesterday. Here "yesterday" is related to "broken". Only...

In your sentence, there is still ellipsis is both endings A and B. The complete ending is "...they originally seemed to cost." Seem is a linking verb, but one with some idiosyncracies. The following is from the American Heritage Dictionary . Seem , a linking verb, is followed by an adjective...

read is a verb. You cannot turn it into an adverb or adjective (readingly/readedly). You can only turn nouns into adverbs or adjectives. Would you say walkingly or walkedly? No.. I'm excitedly. This is not a complete sentence. You need a verb to follow the adverb. g. I'm readed excitedly....

Put it this way: I created this sentence using the dictionary definitions of the words. Can you understand it? I wouldn't have a clue what this was talking about ...it just doesn't make sense even though these are the dictionary definitions. "A pronoun used by a speaker or writer to refer...

Voltaire101 wrote: I can differe make the difference between the present continuous tense and the simple present tense. The difference is : - Th e simple present tense is used for a repeated or habitual action that happen s always or often or usually. In these cases you'll have...

Welkins2139 wrote: Magda wrote: Hi, can I say: "I dived 5 feet deep"? Is this sentence complete? Thank you. It sounds bad. I would say: I dived into a 5 feet deep swimming pool. Below is the definition of deep ...

The term marked is used to indicate something other than the "plain", "ordinary" case, i.e., other than the unmarked case. chair is unmarked. (normal, ordinary, usual, base form) chairs is marked. (It's specifically marked for plurality.) do is unmarked. (base form) did is...