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.None of them seem of much use, Vincent.She won the first trophy. = There are several trophies and she was the first person to win any of them.The team is winning the trophy.-- Hard to imagine. The trophy is not won until the competition is finished; therefore a past tense is required.A team of...

Just when the most confident.are should be were. It's a past tense sentence. (See verbs in blue.)(By the way, verbs don't modify nouns. are is a verb. athletes is a noun.) CJ

Here it is a little easier for me to think of the badgering preceding the uneasiness. And the for phrase tends to force a perfect tense anyway.CJ

Hi,The original poster, beta_teacher, wrote:in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a walk. I had ttrouble keeping up with him because __ (walk) so fast. which tense shoul be used? Past progressive or Past Perfect ProgressiveI have the similar problem in that I think a past perfect...

i hope i can help, i have just passed module 6 and the grammar being taught is the past tense of "used to" also the concept of the structure is just about the time line and the flashcard useage, i.e . he useed to live in a castle but now he lives in jail.Hope that helps a bit, stuck on...

In a nutshell:where = question word regarding location; the vowel is pronounced as it let; even though it is spelled wh..., the initial sound is actually that of hw.were = the past tense of the plural forms of to be. The vowel is pronounced as schwa (a relaxed the)Where were you last night...

The words you mention are all words that are spelled differently in British English and American English. There are quite a few of them (color/colour, theater/theatre, realize/realise etc.) If you are concerned with using a specific spelling standard, I would advise you to google "british...

I got kind of confused of these words ending with lise/lize like realize/legalize/recognize ... I wanna ask for British English the root form of these words end with se or ze ? How about when they are past tense form ? sed or zed ?

Im sorry, this is quite embarrassing but i seem to have endless trouble differentiating where from were. I understand that where relates to a place or time and were is the past tense of was/is but i still have real difficulty in my essays knowing which one to use in each situation. Is there some...

Hi,Another way to look at 'I was . . . ' is to consider that it is Simple Past tense. If your listener is influenced by the grammar they are hearing from you, they will expect a past-related statement, eg"If Tom was a millionaire . . . he certainly didn't tell me when I met him...