By Conditionals, TOEFL

Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your letter dated 20th April 2007. I am delighted to hear from you. As you can see what has been stated in my application form in 2003, I finished …… High School in …....., the United States, with the GPA of 4.14 (outstanding) in 2003. From 2004 to 2007, I...

Saturday, April 28, 2007 Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your letter dated 20th April 2007. I am delighted to hear from you. As what has been stated in my application form. In 2003, I finished …… High School in …....., the United States, with the GPA of 4.14...

Thank you, Tam, for the effort you made to try to let me understand this structure. However ... Tam Sadek wrote: Perhaps this example using the Past Perfect/Past Simple will make it clearer. "We arrived late because our plane had been delayed" versus "We arrived late because our plane was...

Lcchang wrote:It seems to me that a present auxiliary "may" is used for the past event. That has confused me for a while. She may have forgotten our invitation. Other than being used for degrees of certainty for the events that was happened in the past, can "may" also be used for opinions and...

By just briefly looking over it and not being much of an editor I found these: 1. "The TOEFL test is a test that measures the ability in English for both nonnative and native speakers who attend the university." -- You don't need "is a test that" because we know it's a test because you just...