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This is my take:The use of "would rather" is not restricted by time. In certain aspects, it contains a conditional element as well. Here is some info. Hope that helps your question.<EDITED by mod to credit your source.>

Greetings,I have a pretty big favour to ask.I've been struggling with this topic for quite awhile now.It goes without saying that my English "leaves something to be desired".Having in mind the subtle differences that occur from using particular tenses, I have often wondered how the...

Hi, YSchneider. I am not a native speaker and this is indeed a tough grammar point for non-native speakers.Here is an extract from CGEL*: Did you lock the front door?

Hi Mad, With this scant context, it could be taken either way. It's pretty confusing. "Friends" is plural. Was she paired with one particular guy? Whom is she talking to? Her date?? "Felt" is past tense, but "is" is present tense. Is she still on the date...

"Shot dead" itself, I believe, is incorrect grammar. Dead is either an adjective meaning to no longer be alive or as an adverb to mean absolutely/exact/straight; directly (e.g. they were shot dead in the head). Shot in these contents is to mean the past tense of shoot. To...

1. "women" - use plural to match "the elderly" & "are more LIKELY" 2. The goals of our program ARE - use plural verb with plural subject 3. MANY benefits - "Much" is for stuff; "many" is for things you can count. 4. there IS a lot of space (missing verb in clause) ...

ETJW-CMD wrote: Dear Goodman, I am one of Hoa’s friends, a member of a friendly yet private English-To-Join-the-World Club that we co-founded here in Vietnam. Last night, she showed me this thread and asked for my opinion. My first reaction was that the present perfect and past tense...

The structure "Used to" is used only in past tense to indicate a past habitual action. It is always followed by an infintive phrase: I used to turn up early and prepare the lessons To express the same idea in the present tense, we use frequency adverbs such as always, often, generally,...

My take... Past tense or present depends on the context. If one is feeling ashamed because of something he has found out about his past, like his family was involved in drug trade, present should be the right tense. If we talk about his feeling in the past, then by all means, past tense is...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...