Dear friend, Should this be subjunctive: If anyone ring, can you take a message. - this use is mainly confined to very formal, legal, or quasi-legal contexts. This is not at all likely to occur in speech in modern English. It is perhaps

Hi. Can we leave the tenses as they were? Thank you for your anticipated help. She said if the weather is fine, she will go on a picnic with her friends

hello everyone, “If the weather is fine, I will go on a picnic with my friends,” she said to me. reported speech: she said to me if the weather was fine, she would go on a picnic with her friends. am i right or wrong? can you

Hi, "would" is used in a lot of different ways, so I don't think you can generalize. Just as an example, here's how I personally understand your sentences: She said it was your fault.’ ‘Well, she would say that, wouldn’t she?

Hi, I was looking at today's YAHOO! NEWS titled "Pressure intensifies for Ill. governor to resign" by Deanna Bellandi and Christopher Wills and have some grammatical questions on it. Blagojevich's approval rating dropped to an

O czasie 2004-06-12 01:15, taki/taka jeden/jedna Donna Richoux wzi±/ê³(a) i napisa³(a) : But didn't he happen to? I don't know how the ... consists of (object, subject, etc.) and all this basic grammar. Yes, in English-speaking countries,

O czasie 2004-06-11 23:02, taki/taka jeden/jedna Django Cat wzią/ęł(a) i napisał(a) : Bollocks. What you mean is you aren't familiar with the term because you're a native speaker and haven't had to learn the language in class. But

But you're not alone in that; 99.99% of native English speakers couldn't explain to you the difference between simple past and present perfect (the other .01% probably spent a gap-year teaching English). I've tried this by asking