By Verbs, Dates

Inverted pseudo-cleft structure.The base sentence is:I would call him emotionless and expressionless here.It becomes, by transforming it into a pseudo-cleft structure:What I would call him is emotionless and expressionless. Inversion is then applied to highlight the original object complement...

Actually, Ant_222 is using decompose in its first (transitive) definition! (Surprise!) (m-w.com)Main Entry:de·com·pose Pronunciation: \ˌdē-kəm-ˈpōz\ Function:verb Etymology:French décomposer, from dé- de + composer to composeDate:1718 transitive verb ...

Hi, What is an open conditional? Is that another name for first conditional or what? Does that mean the element of hypothetical doesn't exist in an open conditional or can it accommodate both hypothetical and real? But I see cases where the verb or auxiliary verb 'did' or 'did...

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!At work I have Americans from either Western or Eastern states,most of them are college students,selfsupporting their classes serving US military forces.(pretty often there are some Hispanic ones)Exception made for the British ones, we all are bilingual.Myself,I was born and raised in one of...

.We received the quotation from Michael on 10 March. However, ourgoods will be ready in the first week of April, so we willcontact him again to get the updated cost around the shipment date.Thank you for your follow-up and have a nice weekend.If you give a past date ('10 March'), you...

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...

The questionof 'whoever' being sing. or plural depends on its use in the sentence, and if it is qualified by a noun in apposition:Always singular: Whoever is here can pick up a form. = Whoever is it that is here.../It does not matter who the person is, he or she can pick up a form. ...

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...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object 2.Indirect...