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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....

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...

Look: I wish I knew what was happening right now. I wish I knew what was happening yesterday. ( also: ...what had happened yesteday) I wish I knew what would happen tomorrow. I wish I had known what... (the tenses are used as in the above sentences but time adverbs change as in...

" if clauses " ( also called adverb clause of condition) present possible condition. The main clause express results. 1. If you study in a foreign country , what do you need to do? a present tense, not a future tense, is used in an if clause, even though the verb in the " if " clause may...

Yipes! My mistake-- confused by my own language! I thought we were discussing present tenses, and I thought read was pronounced /ri / in your question. OK, in addition to my previous post; I will start again: She may be reading a history book -- Yes, she herself is...

Hello In my opinion, 'the last time' itself is a time adverb that connotes a past time, just like 'yesterday'. So 'When is the last time you have seen a movie this scary?' sounds a bit odd. Please remind 'present perfect tense' is a kind of 'present tense'. Probably I would say 'When was the...

Ohayo gozaimasu, Ohayo-- and welcome to English Forums. Your sentences are out of context (and I hope they had some), but to me they seem like narrative, for which the immediacy can be enhanced by telling the story in present tense: Then Frodo leaves Hobbiton with Sam and they cut...

Hello Steves5A I'm sorry but I have to say that "The receptionist returns today" sounds odd to me. The intransitive "return" is a momentary dynamic verb. We cannot use this kind of verb in a simple present tense except in the case you want to state a habitual event. (EX) "He returns at...

Hello, Paco, I think 'wouldn't' would sometimes have a sense present time, depending on the context. Yes. I agree completely. "This computer wouldn't let me do a lot of things I used to" The sentence is correct, but not the best illustration of your point, perhaps, because it...

tense has no bearing on the semantics of modals I'm trying to analyze this sentence, especially in terms of its ramifications. Which of the following are consistent with that sentence? No modal verb expresses tense. No modal verb expresses a relationship in time. When determining the...