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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 know...

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. Who __ you __ (speak) to just now? 5. I __ (not know) him very well. 6. What will...

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...

Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time - we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday , but not I have seen him yesterday . In fact, such structure are unusual but not impossible (though learners should avoid them)....

That's incorrect. It should be "He can work part-time after he retires". I don't understand what Incho is saying about the past tense following "after". It depends on the timeframe of the entire action, but generally the past tense would only be used following "after" if the main verb was...

Hello ladies and gentlemen, I am completely new to this forum (as you may have already noticed), so please be understanding if I'm posting in the wrong category. But first, let me introduce myself. My real name is Jacek (my English friends simply call me Jack, although that's quite misleading)...

I've highlighted the problem areas for you. Hamlet is the kind of character that really makes someone wonder. His actions have proved to be incredibly abnormal . There are times when he seems perfectly sane and witty, and other times when he seems completely insane. By looking at all of his...

Sanity Through the Unimaginable Hamlet is the kind of character that really makes someone wonder. His actions have proved to be incredibly abnormal. There are times when he seems perfectly sane and witty, and other times is completely insane. By looking at all of his actions, it is...