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Hi Your sentence is in the present perfect. " Have you ever had ..." " the feeling " is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not...

Vincent Teo wrote: Thanks your reply. My friends said, we must use "has also", but not "also has". Does he correct? Is he correct? I already gave you the correct answer, VT. If have, has or had is the only verb, also is before it: I also have news for you. He also has a new car. They also had...

Do is not used: 1. With be (except imperatives): Were you late? Is he walking now? But: Don't be a fool! 2. With the defective auxiliaries (can, could; will, would, shall, should; may, might, must; ought): Can he swim? Will they come as well? Would you have said that? 3. With have, has, had...

Hi, Please take a look at the sentence below and tell me why the past perfect is used? Is it used since the fact contain within there is relevant to the present situation? I am used to seeing the present perfect being used in the main clause and it seems a little foreign to see it in a...

Peaceblinkfriend wrote: Hi, If I hadn't passed my exam, I wouldn't have gone to Cancun. = This is a conditional clause and in this instance, it is being used to talk about something that might have happened in the past, but did not in fact happen. In this sort of conditional clause, you use the...

Pastsimple wrote: Maple wrote: Which principles have been violated by those three poor sentences? I especially don't like the " must not have contained" part. The sentences strike me as odd and unnatural. Here is a dollar, I don't have 2 cents….I think...

What is the rule governing the usage of simple past in the second clause here? There is no simple past in the second clause. Even if you answer "vacuumed" (not "had vacuumed"), the form you are using ("vacuumed") is not the simple past, but the past participle, which forms a past perfect...

Jack112 wrote: Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them? 1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct) 2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How...

Hellow Zewu I'm an English learner from Japan. I am afraid I don't know much about English enough to answer such questions as those you are asking. But allow me to put my two cents worth. First of all, let me define some grammatical terms. In English, people usually say 'subjunctive mood'...

Do you agree that the subjunctive mood is only used in the following ways? A. Present subjunctive. -1. All verb forms are the same as for the present tense except in the third person singular. There, use the infinitive (without to ). -I/you/we/they launch the shuttle. (present indicative) ...