No. First, only past tense forms were used in this construction, so the sentence should have started with 'Had', not ... houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs." Ludwig

The following sentences use "inverted verbs". 1) According to a recent survey, WERE a majority of telecommuters TO LOSE their jobs, they WOULD look for other telecommuting positions. why WERE followed by an infinitive TO LOSE are used?

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

My colleagues and I are writing a technical report. I ... people on this NG. Also, do you have better suggestions? I am a statistician To me, it seems just slightly better for that simple exponential to remain singular since ... B, and C were each

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I got the idea but I find it a bit confusing especially when I imagine my self speaking with someone and I have to use the past perfect. I beleive that I would spend the whole time in thinking do I have to use the past perfect or past tense or

I think you are wrong about "me and my wife ... stands by itself as the subject of a finite predicate. I keep reading this "people are applying rules as they speak" stuff. My opinion is that no one thinks about ... the language (the

This book looked promising – it was subtitled A How-Not-To Guide to the 47 Most Common Mistakes in English Made by Journalists, Broadcasters, and Others Who Should Know Better – and in the first few pages I came across a passage referring to that

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

Hi, How are you all ? Well, I'm reading an english grammer book called English Grammer In Use and I reached to the past perfect and I'm facing troubles in getting the idea of where and how to use it. Sometimes I understand the way but after a