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Dear teachers, Would you please help me with the following difficuties? 1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were (?) performed THROUGOUT /...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 305 days ago Grammar Vocabulary Verbs Plurals Dates Prepositions Tenses Adverbs Negatives Expressions
Re: inclusion vs. separation (present perfect and simple past)

Dear all, For whatever its worth – Here is my opinion as I promised to deliver: The issue we have been dealing with here boils down to one question – “In one sentence, grammatically and semantically, could we use both simple past and present perfect for one item?” Evidently, the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Hoa Thai 328 days ago Grammar Verbs Dates Tenses Simple past Present perfect Teaching English Marriage
Re: Martha has lived in Europe and Asia when she was little

Amy, Thank you for taking the time for the detailed explanation. I understand and in principle agree with almost everything you said. However, there is still some kind of glitch in our thoughts interpreting that particular sentence. Either my head is so thick that the signals from you can not...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 331 days ago Grammar Verbs Dates Tenses Stative verbs Past perfect Simple past
Re: what could come after a preposition?

The only thing that can come after a preposition to form a prepositional phrase is a noun phrase, usually a noun accompanied by its preceding determiner and perhaps an adjective. A relative clause may be added. The noun itself may be a gerund. If the element after the candidate for a...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 347 days ago Verbs Dates Prepositions Clauses Nouns Adverbs Noun phrases Gerunds Uncountable nouns Countable nouns Determiners
Re: present continuous vs present simple

"Have" in relation to a date is not used with the present continuous because it doesn't refer to the action of going out with someone, it's an arrangement. We talk about going on a date when we want to refer to actually going out with someone. So this is not just a question of tense, it's also...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Ti:ʧə 361 days ago Verbs Tenses Present continuous Dates
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Lin1978 wrote:Dear Masters,The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article,"Women are encountering forms of the hostility they...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 1 yr 2 days ago Articles Grammar Verbs Resume Dates
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Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 3 days ago Verbs Possessives Dates Constructions Tenses Clauses Gerunds Simple past Past tenses Conditionals Passive sentences
Re: Passive

Lin1978 wrote:Dear Masters,The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article,"Women are encountering forms of the hostility they...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 3 days ago Articles Grammar Verbs Resume Dates Nouns
Passive

Dear Masters,The grammar, "the verb transferred to passive terms", preplexes me all the time. I have read an article,"women with money encounter the fragile male ego on date", in New York Times. There is a sentence in this article,"Women are encountering forms of the hostility they weren't...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Lin1978 1 yr 4 days ago Articles Grammar Verbs Resume Dates

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi GoodmanYou wrote: I have been labeled and called by many descriptions, hinted being “Ignorant” is the first ... I'm not hinting that you're ignorant. I say that if a learner tells me "informal" means "wrong", I'll understand that he says so because he is ignorant. But you...

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