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"Shot dead" itself, I believe, is incorrect grammar. Dead is either an adjective meaning to no longer be alive or as an adverb to mean absolutely/exact/straight; directly (e.g. they were shot dead in the head). Shot in these contents is to mean the past tense of shoot. To...

If everyone was really careful to always use the grammatically correct tense then using the "wrong" one might be pretty confusing, but that's not the case. English is pretty relaxed when it comes to past events and we often use the past indefinite where the past imperfect, past...

I was concentrating on the choice between were and was (subjunctive vs. indicative), and I neglected to address the choice between was/were and is (past vs. present). You're referring to the use of past throughout once the main clause introduces the past tense. Hmmm. Defend it? That's...

Thank you very much indeed, Jim. That's a great explanation. You cleared all my doubts. Forgive me for thinking out loud as I hope you can correct me if I am still making any mistakes. Firstly, I didn't notice that it was (can only use "was", "is" not possible?) ...

No, I didn't know that. We are all here to learn and I don't think my English is much better than yours. In this case, you certainly know better than me. I just googled for "that the sun was a star" / "that the sun is a star" and found that both have similar number...

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Could a native speaker please respond to New2grammar's query? Many thanks.

An Anonymous' s post on the subject of the ' difference between 'can' and ' able ' contains a post thread (#354509 ) in which Mister Micawber says that 'can' and ' be able to ' have the same meaning and instructs the main poster to use ' I can't...

Hi New2grammar A verb in the past tense.can be used afterr 'since'. I have been studying at Nanyang School since was in Primary 1.

I would like to thank you for your edition.However, I cannot understand/ have not understood/have not been understanding the logic of your edition.Could you ...' b. am not able to understand I was reading the thread and wanted to...