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Yoong Liat wrote: "I had no idea there are so many Japanese language schools here..." "I had no idea there were so many Japanese language schools here..." The first sentence is correct because the sentence starts with "I had" ( a verb in the past tense). You say "I didn't know you were here"...

Hi, In general while speaking, we say " what he did was.." According to grammer rule, if we use 'did` next verb will be in present tense ... like "Did you get that book ?" No, 'get' here is not present tense, it is the infinitive. Here, it is used with the auxiliary 'did' to make past tense....

No. "Have you ever had to go to hospital?" is correct. The first sentence is incorrect, and might not even be understood. The reason is that 'do' is an auxiliary only for the present tense, whereas 'have' is the auxiliary for the present perfect. So, in the present tense we invert "you (do)...

Mary Ansell has a chapter on the subjunctive mood at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch09.html. One of the complications in using the subjunctive is the fact that, besides hypothetical condition clauses, which require the subjunctive, there are factual condition clauses that do...

When he returns to Manhattan 1000 years later it has been destroyed and rebuilt three times 2 What

Hi milky. (Have you given up our discussion on modal auxiliaries?) Tense is used for more than just time I think it's a good point. Quine once said: Our ordinary language shows a tiresome bias in its treatment of time. Relations of date are exalted grammatically (..). This bias is of...

"me too" seems to have a universal use. You can use "so do I" If there's no auxiliary in the main/first sentence, and if the verb's in the present tense: "I love reading!" - "so do I" "John hates bacon" - "so do I" etc... You can use "so am i" if "to be" is used in the present tense in the...

Do you agree that the subjunctive mood is only used in the following ways? A. Present subjunctive. -1. All verb forms are the same as for the present tense except in the third person singular. There, use the infinitive (without to ). -I/you/we/they launch the shuttle. (present indicative) ...

Yes; further to Pieanne's and Roro's comments, in sentence #2, 'am' acts as an auxiliary verb. We use the appropriate present tense of the verb 'to be' + the present participle to form the present progressive tense: 'I am / going to the store.' 'He is / going to the store.' etc. This...

Hello This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations. My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods (indicative/subjunctive) and...