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Hi Your sentence is in the present perfect. " Have you ever had ..." " the feeling " is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not...

Here is a practice: Q: A minute passed in complete silence. Terri announced her wedding plans then. I wrote: A minute passed in complete silence when Terri announced her wedding plans. A: A minute when Terri announced her wedding plans passed in complete silence. Grammar...

Hi, I don't understand why it has to be in present tense for the subordinate clause in the reported speech content. I saw this from YAHOO NEWS today. The title of the article is "US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack," and it is by JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press...

. -- I agree that there is often an option; nevertheless, in your sentence, a specific power source is implied-- i.e the power supplied at where 'they' are. .

Aha! This one is a little difficult. Absent earlier context setting the present time, "earlier in the evening" does two things. It establishes that the present time is this evening . And it establishes that Chavez picked the thing up at some time earlier this evening . Well, I guess...

I'm not sure I understand your question. The is needed before girl because of the restrictive relative clause , which implies that there is only one such girl. The could be omitted before best in the first sentence because the best is an adverb, not an adjective. Nor is the needed before...

Hi, I think we are allolwed to place discrestionary commas. Am I right? 1.She moved around a lot but she didn't do anything substantial. -- two clauses go together and almost fit together so well, I would say no comma is better. 2.It does not explain just they work us harm but it exhorts us...

Memos show Clinton turmoil Question: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe? BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.> August 13, 2008 Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate...

Those are standard grammatical terms. Restrictive – something that restricts the meaning of a noun to a single specified object which otherwise would refer to a multitude or a class of objects. Descriptive – something that only describes an object, but does not specify it. Descriptive:...

Nevermind on this one. I figured it out. Sheesh. I don't know how I missed it. The "has" was referring to "whenever possible."