By Simple present, Nouns

Hello, Janissary, 1. If a clause begins with a negative adverb, inverted word order must usually be used, with the subject following the Simple Present or Simple Past of the verb to be, or the first auxiliary. In the case of the Simple Present or Simple Past of any verb other than the verb to...

Hello, Hemantchavan . I assume you wish us to correct the grammar in this letter, which I am happy to do. If you are trying to learn English, then it would be better not to use "text language" such as "how r u " You also need to pay attention to the use of capital letters after full stops, and...

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...

Hi, Melanie You posted: "i want to know if i start a sentence with "THE girls mean(or what ever word)" should i use an s after that word(mean/verb) or not." "The" is an article in English, and it's an "invariable" word: you will use "the" with singular and plural nouns, and with feminine and...

Hello again, kynguyen You said: "In fact I think most of the verbs can be used with or without "to", right? For ex: I need to have a vacation. Or I need a vacation." You used the verb "need" as an exampe of the verbs that can be used with or without the particle "to". But the particle "to",...

Of course I don't mind your asking I don't know what your first language is, but in my country, Spanish speakers find it difficult too to understand that the "s" is necessary to form the simple present of a verb for the 3rd. person singular. The reason is that we associate the addition of an "s"...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no puedo...

it is the same as your other question, really - it is about the inflections we use on verb endings, we dont have many left in English, but we do still use ----s endings for the 3rd person singular from of a verb, and "it" is a 3rd person singular pronoun.

The city is polluted. ( simple present tense in passive form ) I tried to shout ( simple past tense, incomplete sentence ) I tried shouting ( simple past, " shouting " is a gerund ) He claimed that he was the Queen's nephew. ( simple past, " that he was the Queen's nephew " is a noun clause...