By Tenses, Football

Hi, I've gone through the first paragraph for you and highlighted problems in the rest. Your main difficulty seems to be the use of singular/plural, verb tenses and knowing when you need a determiner. There are other errors as well though. Once again, NO CAPITAL LETTER AFTER COMMAS! Nicely...

1. - What does "drive me up the wall" mean here? -- seriously irritate; drive crazy: up the wall slang : into a state of intense agitation, annoyance, or frustration <the noise drove me up the wall> 2. By age seven she won skating competitons. - I think "by the age of seven" is...

Nyla wrote:I was sure of the landing on the moon,until I read about some "strange things" about the Apollo 11..these are the "strange things": firstly,talking about the photos made by the astronauts,in one of the most famouswe can see the american flag fluttering..how can the flag be...

I was sure of the landing on the moon,until I read about some "strange things" about the Apollo 11..these are the "strange things": firstly,talking about the photos made by the astronauts,in one of the most famouswe can see the american flag fluttering..how can the flag be fluttering?There's no...

I don't understand a thing at football, I'm afraid, so you don't think it can be prehensive at that stage? As to MrP, I don't see how his ejaculation could be qualified of "prehensive"! even if he thought MrQ was "normal" before... How can an ejaculation be "prehensive"? A hand could be,...

Thank you for the link. I can see what you mean about #1. But if MrQ is the epitome of normality in the eyes of MrP, how can that digging be classified under the" prehensive mood"? His mood must have been elsewhere? On the other hand, if the ball was well played by the football team, then the...

Hello Anon The "subject complement" is a word or phrase that tells us more about the subject, e.g. 1. MrQ is a very strange fellow. 2. Juventus are top of the Italian football league. The underlined portion tells us more about MrQ in the first example, and Juventus in the second. Your...

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am studying about the Present Tense. I already know that Simple Present can be used to express a fact at the present or a present habit. But my teacher says that sometimes the present tense can be used with future or past meaning and that the Simple Present also have...

Oh, I see the ambiguity in the sentence (1) now. I can say, for example, "He plays tennis as well as football". And it is correct then, isn't it? But when I write "father" as the final word, it really may imply "He plays his father"! :-D MrPedantic, is it correct to use "does" in the end of the...

|------------------------------------------------| I played |------------------------| John wrote the letter. When John was writing the letter, I played football. |------------------------------------------------| John wrote the letter. |------------------------| I...