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Marius Hancu wrote: It's definitely subjunctive mood. But it's not easy. Dear Marius Hancu, I hope you won't kick me out. From grammatical point of view, I totally agree with you. The if ...., ... would construct gives us a clue that subjunctive is in play, especially Today is the...

Anonymous wrote: Hi everybody, I have a question about the Negative Form of "Simple Present Tense", please help me. Can I use "I don't read the book right now" to express the meaning of "I'm not reading the book right now"? Thanks a lot in advance. *********** Hi Here is...

H Believer, I think a long time ago, you mentioned that one of the important caveats in regard to the use of the past perfect is not to use with such words as 'before' or 'after' and from that, I gather what you meant was that with such obvious time references resulting from th use of...

Thank you, Clive. I think a long time ago, you mentioned that one of the important caveats in regard to the use of the past perfect is not to use with such words as 'before' or 'after' and from that, I gather what you meant was that with such obvious time references resulting from th use of...

Hao Thai: "Now could you please do the same for past perfect, present perfect, future perfect, and their associated progressive cousins?" Ok, but that'll take some time. PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE Yesterday at 9:30 I had been eating for 5 minutes. |<----------------->| | I...

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Hi!Clive: Thank you very much for your instructions. Can I ask you some more questions? Ha!Ha! Sorry to bother you since you are so good at Englsih!! Can I say: While he was working in a patent office, Einstein published his first important paper. Thank you and have a nice day....

Hi Eelt, Welcome to the Forum. if I don' t use "before" in the setence, shall I just say: 1. Did Einstein take an IQ test? 2. Had Einstein taken an IQ test? I was referring to whether or not Einsten took an IQ test in the past. Which sentence should I construct in regard to...

Hello, this is my first post here. I want to apply to one of the business school in the US. I would like to ask if you could correct the text I have written in English. Thanks in advance. When I was a child, my family used to mock me of “half autistic" because I was so tuned in tinker...

Dear Shiva Ji, Thank you for sending my name in for the SA & hardware courses. Dear Parbati, Regarding the criteria for the SA courses, I think they should have been mentioned at the beginning , and then we would have been able to decide who would attend at that time. They came...