By Tenses, Phrasal verbs

First a word of caution... I'm not a native speaker so there are things I may overlook in your text... :-) 'Last wednesday I've read...'Should be 'I read' since you specify when exactly in the past it happened.'...exiting challenge'Missing 'c' in 'exiting', should be 'exciting'. '... where I...

Hello K.O. That looks good - here's a little more detail: Clause 1 We - subject were spared - passive voice, past tense the storm's fury - noun phrase, object (the storm's - possessive; fury - direct object) Clause 2 but - coordinating conjunction now - adverb are having - modal verb,...

Hey, you forgot about all the other things "do" could stand for, like: do. abbreviation for ditto. .do abbreviation: Dominican Republic (in Internet addresses). n. Music The first tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio. n. Slang pl. dos A hairdo. v. did, (dd) done, (dn) do·ing,...

Hello I found in OED a quote using 'love' in progressive tense. I never meant any harm; it was just as if he was a puppy I was loving up. paco

What wonderful contributions! I agree with what has already been said: 1. After hordes of tourists swept past (me). 'swept past' is a two-word phrase called a phrasal verb. We know the main verb is 'swept' because (a) it comes first and (b) it carries tense. We know that 'past' is not a...

You and your classmate don't seem to have any standard by which both of you agree to measure influence. Will it be the number of words related to each? Will it be the most frequently used words? The most frequently used words in everyday conversation? The most frequently used words in formal...

It's no surprise that the use of "up" as the second component of phrasal verbs seems chaotic. There are something like 30 to 40 different kinds of verbal concepts that take "up" as a complementary particle. I've never attempted to classify them all, but here are some examples. Note how some...

Hello again, Lupa Thank you for posting again. Now I understand what you have been asked to do. It seems I was looking for something more complicated, or something "tricky" behind that question! Anyway, I don't think you will find all three combinations in those two sentences. Let's see what...

Hello again, Lupa Sorry I couldn't come back online earlier. I found out later that the problem was my phone line, not my poor server. It seems to have been fixed now. Going back to your question, I'm not sure what your teacher was referring to when they asked about "verb + participle" and...

1. "I`d like some informations about your courses." "Certainly, here`s our brochure." Correction: some information Explanation in in simple terms: information is an uncountable noun. It can't be used in the plural form. ____________________________________________ 2. “Have you got any...