In Commas^x, Past tenses^x

<You ask very strange questions for a native speaker of English. I think you know what tense has been falling is, but in case you don't, it's a continuous perfect tense. > I put such questions to my students all day long. Have done so for 25 years. It's a "please think again" type...

Milky wrote: <I know it's a past event from the perfect tense has turned.> Is has been falling past tense? You ask very strange questions for a native speaker of English. I think you know what tense has been falling is, but in case you don't, it's a continuous perfect tense....

what seemed a natural choice is the subject. It is incorrect to separate the subject from the predicate with a comma. Secondly, seemed is past tense, and becomes is present. This is jarring to some, but not incorrect. With no implication that these are the only correct phrasings, I...

Ah, I have a better understanding of your first question now. I'm sorry it's taken so long to get to this point. In that particular sentence, if you say "I threw him a baseball," it does imply that he caught it. I'm not sure why. If you say "I threw the ball to him," it does leave the...

Is it right that if you start a sentence in the past tense, stay in that tense UNLESS you find it necessary to use a BUT or HOWEVER, which WOULD change the whole emphasis of the sentence from that point on and give you the freedom to do whatever you wish. SO i give an example here : She said she...

Diamondrg wrote: Which do you think is correct? At the time Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty,__ . a- he took advice on the construction of the metal from Gustave Eiffel - YES b- a ferry from Battery Park takes people there every thirty minutes - The tense is wrong....

Hi guys, 1)We helped Christina finish her work. She appreciate that a lot. First and most importantly, you can't say 'She appreciate'. If she appreciated it in the past, use past tense.- she appreciated. If you want to tell me she appreciates it now, use the correct form of the present...

Hello!! This is a great review. I have a few suggestions. Hopefully they will help. In the second sentence, I would change it to "the beginning of Tarzan's life." When mentioning their pack, you could change it to, a group in which they live together. Talking about Shere Khan is a tiger...

For the rest, Kela, I'm going to give you hints (in blue), so that you can try to improve things yourself. (A repeated problem is your use of indefinite pronouns--for instance, writing 'he' when the reader doesn't know which person 'he' refers to . Rommel described himself as a boy who...

Hi, I know that the sentence: " The angry boy ran out of the room slamming the door as he went" is correct, but I cannot explain why. 'Slamming' is used here as an adjective describing the boy. Think of 'a galloping horse'. What you are really talking about here is 'a slamming boy', not...