By Tenses, Dates

Hi, Please tell me if tenses are proper. 1.Setting a meeting date: Hi, I was told that Jane and Joe agreed to have the next meeting on January 16th as I had suggested in the letter I wrote on Janurary 2nd. I feel had I had suggested the date of January 18, they wouldn't have agree to that...

Thank you, Avangi. In my previous post, I should have used third-person verb tenses, 'sounds' and 'gives' -- proper subject-verb agreement wasn't made due to my carelessness. Going back to your request for examples of cases where I would feel something in quotes could not be...

This claim is outrageously "over-the-top"!!! No employer in his right mind would reject a candidate on the basis of a single word. Employers are much more interested in whether the candidate can do the job. Word choice is not at issue in 99.9% of jobs typically available to job...

Perfectly grammatical. As I mentioned in a previous post in this thread, the past perfect is the tense for cases when the events are not being told in the order in which they occurred.Actual order of events: The High Court found the boy guilty. (Later,) the World Court threw out the...

If you'll note the time of post, Jim and I posted a minute apart, clearly writing our posts at the same time. NO! "I thought..." REQUIRES past. Present tense is NOT possible! It doesn't have to turn out to be false.It can turn out that what you thought came true. A:...

Hello. Sorry to hear you're feeling uncomfortable with this type of activity. But you're not alone: I would be, too!The sentences lack context, which makes it difficult to tell when tense changes are necessary and when they are not (among other things).There is one sentence that is wrong...

Hi Goodman, this is new for me. Need the "tense qualifier" be in the same sentence? - A.

Hi LW, I am afraid the teacher’s comment was valid. When we use present tense, we are inferring something that regularly happens as a routine. i.e. The mailman usually delivers the mails around 11 o’clock everyday.I go to the grocery stores twice a week. We need a tense qualifier to validate...

Was the speaker middle-aged? It could mean that he was six months away from the date when he would have worked for the company for 20 years. (oh, what fun we're having with verb tenses) This date might be important because it's when his pension or other retirement plan would become...

Hello, I'll be really glad if somebody checks my motivation letter draft too. I've gone through this forum and copied some ideas and even senteces into that. I'm not sure if I can ask you also for grammar correction, but if somebody correct (maybe "fills in" is more appropriate, plenty of them...