In Simple present^x, Clauses^x

"If you are a professional singer, I'm Pavarotti." I didn't know my singing was so terrible! ~chuckles~ Your sentence is grammatically correct, and it makes perfect sense as well. To me, it is also the best choice in the context you mentioned. Your second sentence is also grammatically...

Not all kinds of time adverbials call for the tense-changing process. We may have to put them into three categories, and only Definite Past Time Adverbials, which I simply dub as 'Frame', can do so: (a) Definite Past Time Adverbials, or (TIME) FRAME, are such as: "in the past few/four/ten years,...

> Hmm... what did I get myself into? > My reply: A little trouble. > The Simple Present has several uses: > 1. Universal statements in which no reference to time is implied: > "Two and two make four." > My reply: So do other tenses, for example: Ex: Two and two have made four since I know...

Hmm... what did I get myself into? The Simple Present has several uses: 1. Universal statements in which no reference to time is implied: "Two and two make four." 2. Habitual statements: "We go to Ireland every year." 3. Sometimes it refers to an event taking place at the moment of...

I don't think you'll see tenses other than the so-called "simple future" (wil) or the simple present used in this type of conditonal clause, maj.

The future time is determined by the main verb or by the context, so a verb in a subordinate clause referring to the future time appears in the simple present tense after subordinating conjunctions (after, before, until, when, as soon as..) By the time I arrive at the hotel, I will have...

The city is polluted. ( simple present tense in passive form ) I tried to shout ( simple past tense, incomplete sentence ) I tried shouting ( simple past, " shouting " is a gerund ) He claimed that he was the Queen's nephew. ( simple past, " that he was the Queen's nephew " is a noun clause...