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Rvw wrote: As far as I know, the statement does hold for AE speakers. "The present perfect tense usually places the action indefinitely in a past time period stretching up to the present moment." --- Understanding Grammar , by Paul Roberts I see. Then why do AE speakers also use the past...

CalifJim wrote: I avoid answering ... You just did " src="../emoticons/emotion-2.gif"> Avoid or answer? I tried responding to the phrasal verb thread and got into some technical difficulties. For some reason, it wouldn't let me post. And then I just forgot about it and never tried again as I got...

1. 'If only she would contact me'. This sentence uses 'if' but there's only one clause so what type of sentence is this? You wouldn't call it a conditional, would you? 2. The above sentence is about a wish and therefore we don't use 'will'. Also, in other such sentences we use the simple...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in...

The question regarding non-active verbs appeared when I was studying the usege of Past Simple Tence.What's the meaning of "...We use Past Siple Tence for non-active verbs in the past ."I just don't get its application.I am looking forward for any help.I am truly apologize for any spelling or...

Hi to all members, I just had regestered in the site and I already had a question to ask. I study english as a foreing language and the question is about the english grammar, particularly non-action verbs.One of the definitions for using Siple Past Tence is "..we use The Past Simple for...

Hello everybody, I'm working on the rules of the reported speech and the ones on the future in the past . A practical English Grammar wrote: reported speech: He said, ‘Ann will be in Paris on Monday.’ >>> He said that Ann would be in...

Hi Teachers, I am reading a grammar book. This is the sentence. (1) I felt very tired when I got home, so I went straight to bed. Why dont we use had gone in this situation? Is it because of the atmosphere? So if I rephrase this to "The house was very quiet when I got home, so I __...

I've just had a Celta pre-course interview, after which I was offered a place. The interviewer went through the language awareness task that I'd submitted and asked me how I would respond to a couple of questions that an efl student (beginner) might ask. One question I recall was, 'What is a...