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Yankee wrote: Hi Goodman You can look at "to welcome someone with open arms" as an idiom. This idiom contains the verb 'welcome'. Simple past tense, active voice: They welcome d him with open arms. Simple past tense, passive voive: He was welcome d with open arms (by them). 'Welcome...

In Turkish there is simple past which is used to tell things that you witnessed when they happened and, there is the other one which is used to tell the things happened in past that you didn't witness. Simple past(Tr) is equivalent to the simple past in English but, Turkish doesn't have...

Techgeek wrote: Dear all, For Present Perfect tense we use

Dear all, For Present Perfect tense we use like: 1. You have grown since the last time I saw you. 2. The government has become more interested in arts education. ( http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html ) Why in example 2 become is used instead of became? Shouldn't it be...

I think it would be helpful to get some further explanations from the original poster, because it is not clear what he/she is trying to say with the sentence. There are many possible variations in meaning, for example: 1. We have moved into a new house. The speaker relates a recent event, so...

Dear Group, Can somebody advise me as to when I should use "would" and "will". I know that "would" is used as simple past tense for "will" and also in making suggestions. But, in what other circumstances one should use "would' instead of "will". I would appreciate it, if someone could...

Hi, Let us talk about a conflict which is going on for sometime . By last week the army had broken the enemy lines. Yes, it's grammatically correct. The question is why you have chosen to use the Past Perfect instead of the Simple Past. In other words, it becomes a matter of context. What...

Then, Jim, why do you think have they given two equally correct choices in the alternatives. It is probably because the pattern with the past continuous comes to the mind of the native speaker more quickly than any other pattern that it is considered "more correct" than the other pattern....

Dear SpoonFedBaby, Your meaning is now clear to me. Speaker B has not concluded his study of English. The simple past is therefore incorrect. Here is my amendment. SpeakerA says, "The English on this website is full of mistakes." SpeakerB says, "I've only just found this website....

It is an interesting question. Speaker B says "I just found this website." *He found the website recently. In British English you may also say «I have just found this website». "I’ve not looked at it much yet." *He expects to look at it again, therefore he uses the present...