By Verbs, Sample

I'm not sure if there is any prescriptive rule to what I read in a statement as follows: ...after all these years, I asked him if he remembered who I was. The sentence sounded okay to me, but I was also confused as to whether the subjunctive should be at play here and if the past tense of...

Both these terms refer to the time when verb action takes place. Your sample sentence could read "You should use a past perfect verb, not a present perfect verb." But often that noun would be understood and the adjectives modifying it are taken as a noun.

There should be sample lists of each in your grammar book: ( 1 ) verbs which take only the to form as complement, ( 2 ) verbs which take only the -ing form, ( 3 ) verbs which take both and have the same meaning, and ( 4 ) verbs which take both and produce different meanings. As far as I know,...

Hi Albinario, and welcome to the forums. The -ing forms of those verbs are called gerunds, and they act like nouns. It's actually correct to therefore have the possessive form "your" or "his" before them, although you'll also commonly hear the object form before them too. I appreciate your...

In which scenarios would you use the following verbs differently? taste food, sample food, test food, try food. When I would like to taste another person's meal, I would say 'Could I sample your salmon"? To find out flavors of food, I would use the word taste, "I tasted the banana bread and...

I am really confused in using "ing", i always have doubt when should or shouldn't use it. I know that when you doing something then you use "ing" after the verb, something like "i am eating" , "i am running" something. But what about something like this? "I look forward speaking to you"? ...

example sentence example is a noun so it can't take tenses. Are you getting confused with the verb sample?

In that case, they have earned the title of distinguished by imitating British usage. I am well aware that the sample sentence is not a question and what the meaning is, and though my concentration often lapses, I don't believe it has done so on this particular occasion. Modern American...

here's my essay:Childlike Innocence “Turning-point ITSELF was the creator of the new condition. This gives it too much distinction, too much prominence, too much credit.” -- Mark Twain When I was a child, I had a very cute ruler. Based on the instructions, I could easily figure out...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: "I don't understand the function of the underlined that in this sentence and what 'that' refers to? Can you give examples to explain this?" This is the question, right? Inchoateknowledge wrote: Note from these examples, that in statements when the preposition is...