I would like someone to confirm my thoughts on the following sentence, to see if I am on the right track or am just in fantasy lala land, going off on a tangent: "Because Malcolm had never become a cutthroat CEO, he had few enemies." I

Hello, I'm confused about the sentence "I wish you had never been born." I don't quite get why the "had" is used.. is that making the sentence have past perfect tense? Or does it have something to do with

1. There is no objection to the use of time words with the past perfect tense. The objection is when these words are used with the present perfect tense. You may, however, if you wish, replace "last week" with "the previous

Why didn't you just say you haven't read the book. Why didn't you just say you hadn't read the book. Again one is present perfect and the other is past perfect but what's the difference between the two sentences?

There is no true inversion involved (as in forming a question), although you may consider some of the movements of constituents to be inversions. _______________ First, let's disambiguate the pronouns that refer to the council. He said that

I told my mom she has gotten a ticket for not speaking English. OR I told my mom she had gotten a ticket for not speaking English. What's the difference between the two sentences? I know one is present perfect and the other past perfect but

Hello. re•peated adj. happening , said or done many times. Oxford Dictionary. I can't understand why it is said happening and not happened (like said and done ). Good question. This is a very restricted definition "adj.

The contexts: honeysuckle submerged there on the floor of Dale Creek. Yes, he said, he saw my mother sitting on the steps stirring a cake, and I was seven and licking vanilla icing. # " Oh, Teddy, I can hardly wait. When can we go there? I

These sentences are taken from COCA: When I was young I had wandered through Dale Creek on summer days. They'd laughed at my name when I was young , and I had n't liked it much. He had evidenced traces of it when he was

These sentences are taken from COCA: When I was young I had wandered through Dale Creek on summer days. They'd laughed at my name when I was young , and I had n't liked it much. He had evidenced traces of it when he was