By Tenses, Numbers

Hi AvangiTo me, the word 'if' is used like 'whenever' in your sentence, and the word 'will' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on vacation)....

Hi, Let’s buy cricketers! Whatever the purists have to say, but, at least from the economic point of view, auctioning of cricketers is the right thing to do, because monetization of their services will add up to their marketable surplus, which will enhance the national income. Then why there is...

Hi, So it is simple present okay for report writing? No. Very generally speaking, a report should normally use past tense, because it is reporting past events. eg Heat was applied to the chemical. At 40 degrees, it ignited. eg When I searched the robber, I found he had a gun in his pocket. I...

I know 'would' carries many meanings. My problem is sometimes I find it difficult to tell which meaning the speaker uses. I think I understand its hypothetical usage, and in some contexts, its politeness usage. Below is a post that has several woulds I have trouble interpreting. I also...

Hi,I call it subjunctive, which is pretty much what I call everything that seems to be a past tense but doesn't refer to the past.I wish I knew his number (...but I don't know).I wish I could drive (...but I can't).That's why I said there's something hypothetical in those...

Hi Hoa ThaiThere were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following:- Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense- Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination with the word 'all')- Word order (i.e. Does...

Ant_222 wrote:No help from your last post, but after re-reading our little conversaton over I have come up with a reolutionary hypothesis! The problem is that there're two possible omisions: 1. There are time when... (and one has to use present tenses, as I argued) 2. There are times which......

No help from your last post, but after re-reading our little conversaton over I have come up with a reolutionary hypothesis! The problem is that there're two possible omisions: 1. There are time when... (and one has to use present tenses, as I argued) 2. There are times which... (and that seem...

Hello: I am new to the site (was led here by a search engine) and am surprised to see a number of grammatical errors in and around the site in general. I haven't looked everywhere, but below you will find a list of the ones that I noticed right off the bat: The site mistakenly uses, in many...

Irregular means its endings for various tenses and persons and numbers do not follow the typical patterns: (I am, you are, she is; I was, you were, she was) Non-action verbs are called "intransitive." Edit. Sorry, that's an oversimplification. (Actually, it's just wrong.) Intransitive...