By Tenses, Conversations

Its about my description of myself and a person who influence me a lot. Hi! Im just new here and I really need your help.Actually, I posted this on the basic english and i think it is more suitable here. Pls. help me edit my wrong grammars and also i think the way i write is a bit confusing. Can...

Its about my description of myself and a person who influence me a lot. Hi! Im just new here and I really need your help. Pls. help me edit my wrong grammars and also i think the way i write is a bit confusing. Can you pls. help me. I really need your help. I’m Sean Guico and I’m fourteen years...

Hi, There is a conversation between a man and a woman and after a while he says: I should probably be goingTherefore, what's the difference between the above-mentioned expression and "I should probably go" ? The continuous tense looks at the act of going as a process with duration, with length....

Yankee wrote:Hi TamI certainly did not intend my comment as a comparison of formal written UK English and informal US spoken English. I have to say I find it insulting that you think I would even consider making such a comparison. My comment was based on my own experience with British...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

Hi Jingtian,In my opinion, your guess is right. This type of sentence is used to express the degrees of certainty. In the first conversation, two speakers are discussing the girl they have met somewhere else before, so they use the presnt perfect tense here. And in the second conversation, two...

Hi, as a teacher to be I must tell I agree with you.Teaching something isn't as easy as it seems especially to the ones who even have no idea about it.But I think you had courses on teaching English.Don't they work?Anyways, as for your questions 1)Of course with the help of games.You...

I'm sure it's the same for all natural languages. In the flow of conversation, people make mistakes in their grammar. Tenses and agreements go awry, but the benefit of context and non-verbal communication allows the meaning to be understood regardless. It's harder not to be tripped up and...

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of words given: 1. I ____________ (read) a very interesting book now. 2. Joanne ____________ (work) eight hours a day. 3. Tonight we ____________ (see) a play at the thereatre. 4. ...

does contracts to 's in informal conversation after some question words, but not in formal writing. What's (What does) he want? Where's (Where does) he want to go? When's (When does) the next train leave? How's (How does) he do that? The past tense did contracts to 'd in the similar...