By Simple past, Verbs

Andrei, Ellipsis of the verb is correct in that sentence. The original sentence in the text is ok. "I bought flowers for my mother, my sister chocolates." (you don't need to repeat "bought"). "Miriam is a teacher, her husband a doctor." Anyway, even if you wish to use a verb in the second part...

I want to put a few points here: -- I am the first one who has explained the difference in use between Simple Past and Present Perfect, without objections or disagreements from readers. But actually I want to be challenged so that I can fortify my opinion with discussion. -- Moderators should...

Are there exceptions when it comes to reported speech? I was told that only main verbs need to be changed. Is that true? Eg : She asked, " Did he find the wallet he was looking for?" Is it? a. She asked if he had found the wallet he was looking for. (with 'Did...find' as the main verbs...

Verbs in the simple past end in "-ed". So Modern English "played" is Middle English "pleyed". That "-ed" is called a 'dental suffix' and is a common feature of the simple past of WEAK verbs in all Germanic languages. NOTE: the "e" in the "-ed" was usually voiced in Middle English. It is...

I don't really understand the question either... Konstantin, you're referring to the Conditional with your German example. Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German, which however, can be replaced by the Conditional (would+infinitive). In...

Good Morning, I am an ESL teacher with a question from our grammar lesson today. Working with the simple past tense of regular verbs today, we encounter this guideline in our book: For a one-syllable verb ending in consonant + vowel + consonant, double the final consonant and add -ed:...

It'd be "The show has been fun". Here, the Present Perfect is taught - so the simple past tense forms are changing to present perfect forms which consists of the helping verb "have /has" and the past participle, the 3rd form of the verb: I have worked, you have gone, he has written, she has...

the past perfect generally refers to 'the past in the past' so you only use it if you are referring to a time that was clearly before something else also in the past. e.g. He talked to her for an hour about how he had missed her. This means he missed her and later, when he saw her again, he...

Hello, June. I can point out some improvements for these sentences. 1. In the first sentence, you begin with the past progressive ("was studying"). That implies action that has not yet finished. Then you move on to the past perfect ("had known"). It is not possible for the past perfect to...

Auxiliary verbs are "be, have, will" because those are the ones which are needed to built up all the tenses except simple present and simple past: I HAVE seen a rainbow. I WAS writing a letter. I WILL go to Brussels tomorrow. I HAVE BEEN watching a movie. also passive: A letter WAS BEING...