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I'm really confused.. I have difficulty understanding this puzzling phrase 'would rather.' :-S I read some grammar books, visited some E grammar websites.. only to make me more confused. All the grammar books say that "would rather" should be followed by a past tense when other people are...

Hello I have a question regarding "would rather." A: I would rather she came with us. B: I would rather she comes come with us. According to grammar rules, "would rather" should always be followed by a past tense when other people are involved in the action. However I...

Allo pieanne, This is another lucky day for me. I have this question for a while. I read in my grammar book: After conjunctions, we often use simple past tenses instead of would. 1. It would be nice if she asked before she borrowed things. 2. He would never do anything...

Hi, I wrote this before I saw Khoff's post, so here's yet another point of view. And then one evening, after I had begged her to buy me a transistor radio, after she refused and I had sulked in silence for an hour,she said, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?" Here's...

Excuse me, I have big question, I don't know hot to use JUST in the passive in the next exercise I'm going to write, OK! active voice: Michael has just finished the report, so passive voice: the report has just been finished by Michael the report has been just finished by Michael ...

Hi Guru, I am very confused of how to use the "s" and the "ed". He, she and it eg he eats but how do you explain the difference between sport & sports. "ed" is a past tense how do you explain "as far as I'm concern or concerned and why. rgds

Oh I don't think I'm the best person to tell you about the rules of English grammar, Davkett. I guess your knowledge of grammar is better * than mine. What I know is that in conditionals type 2, which are the ones you use when you imagine a future happening, you use a past tense after if ....

When he returns to Manhattan 1000 years later it has been destroyed and rebuilt three times 2 What

She said (that) she couldn't come to the door because she was just washing her hair. Paco: This one is correct. "Could" can be taken either as a past tense modal or as a present tense modal, depending on the context. In this case one might take it as a past tense modal. ^^ This, as...

I am confused by the difference of these sentences. A:If you finish the homework, you could go out with me. B:If you finished the homework, you could go out with me. Are they correct in grammar? If so, would you please tell me the difference? ^^ Yes Yoko, they are both...