By Articles, Simple past

Aha! This one is a little difficult. Absent earlier context setting the present time, "earlier in the evening" does two things. It establishes that the present time is this evening. And it establishes that Chavez picked the thing up at some time earlier this evening.Well, I guess...

Just to summarize:had arrested = past perfect form of the verb 'arrest' had to = simple past form of 'have to' Although it is more common to say 'the police', the word 'police' is also sometime used without the definite article ('the') -- especially in...

Hi,Awhile ago, I asked whether one should use simple past for describing observation of an experiment that has already been carried out. Many adviced using simple past. I recently read an article and I found the author (she is an American) mixed both. Here is an excerpt from her article:...

Hi Active sentence: Somebody stole my bicycle. Passive sentence: My bicycle has been stolen. Is the passive sentence OK, in your opinion? I would write: My bicycle was (simple past) stolen. As far as I know if the active sentence is written in simple past than the passive one should also be...

Hela wrote: Dear teachers, 1) How would you qualify this time of genitive, please? Which "title" would you give it? Is it some sort of "human activities"? but I don't really like this. love's spirit, science's influence, my life's aim, duty's call . wow! I remember genitive as a Latin case...

If I may trouble you once more, is it acceptable to use just the simple past? (it seems there is little ambiguity that would result)

The following is from a newspaper article: "Hill told reporters in December, after visiting North Korea, that he had not seen a draft of the declaration but that U.S. and North Korean negotiators had had extensive talks about what the U.S. expects to see in the list of nuclear programs." I'm...

What do you think of this sentence, which I have read in the Arab News Newspaper of Wednesday 28 Nov. The sentence is as follows: "Iran yesterday announced that it has built a new missile with a range sufficient to put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within easy reach..." Source:...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

Kooyeen wrote:That's true in general, but when we have a context and some particles like "never", "always", "already", etc., it seems to me that that distinction is not so clear anymore. For example:I've already seen that movie / I already saw that movie - In context, they can be used in the...