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This is a serios problem for me. When we use active or passive ? Dear Mrs Patel, We are delighted to inform you that you 1 (select)for a free holiday. According to our information, you 2(answer) a telephone survey last month, as a result of which your name 3( enter)in the holiday draw.Now...

MrP said: The 'progressive' version sounds slightly awkward, though: iii) ??'He's been getting up usually at five o'clock for the last 20 years.' ++ Just the Trout said: The present progressive is not used in English to talk about events that have a long timespan. *He is riding...

John is working (PRESENT PROGRESSIVE) hard. I saw (PAST SIMPLE) him last week. I was having (PAST PROGRESSIVE) a bath when the phone rang (PAST SIMPLE). Isabel had finished (PAST PERFECT) her lunch when I arrived (PAST SIMPLE). Nigel lives (PRESENT SIMPLE) in London. I’ve had (PRESENT...

1a) You require the simple present perfect here, as you are speaking of a long-lasting or permanent situation (i.e. living in NY) Since I have lived in NY I have become accustomed to noise and pollution. b)I think you can use the simple present here: I am used to living alone. 2a) You...

Look through the following sentences and select the TENSE and the time reference used. first options are: past simple, present perfect, present progressive, present simple secon options are: past, present, future 2. I wish I had more time to finish this exercise. Past Simple - Past...

Could you guys tell me were my mistakes are in this, I think I got it. Thanks for all the help PRESENT CONDITIONAL (sometimes called the ZERO CONDITIONAL) IF + PRESENT / PRESENT E.g. If you mix yellow and blue, you get green. 1st CONDITIONAL IF + PRESENT / FUTURE E.g. If you...

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited...

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past simple 2. The shop on the corner is open every Sunday. Past simple 3....

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The structure is: subject + have + object + past...

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these gives eight tense-aspect combinations, sometimes...