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hi! can everyone check my grammar and verb tense, there are my biggest problem in my writting. so please help me. thank you MOTHER A mother is a person who gives life and brings one life into this world.The person will...

In second conditionals the past simple is hypothetical, not really time-bound...in some usage grammar books it's called 'unreal past'Hypothesis or conditionality is not considered time-bound, at least regarding this case. Only first conditionals take the if-clause in present and the...

Hi,I'm not sure everybody here understands what type of exercise you're referring to. I assume you are talking about the new format of the CAE, which will be introduced starting from December 2008, so I'm posting an excerpt from the CAE handbook for teachers about part 5 (key word...

Hi,Another way to look at 'I was . . . ' is to consider that it is Simple Past tense. If your listener is influenced by the grammar they are hearing from you, they will expect a past-related statement, eg"If Tom was a millionaire . . . he certainly didn't tell me when I met him...

They are all correct. For lengthier discussions with lots of examples of the use of the past perfect tense after before, see Re: before past perfect tense , past tense and Re: Past Simple or Past Perfect. This is a common pattern for expressing "interruptive relationships" between...

both sentences contain a tense shift (or conditional shift I guess) should read: Meat is inspected by federal agents, though/although they do not inspect every animal to be slaughtered. Both sentences are fine. They really don't even have different shades of meaning. The difference...

It's not that simple because the main verb of the conditional clause is "think" (present tense). "Love" is a subordinate verb of the conditional clause.

Thanks, CJ. I understand would love = want to. You pointed what I'm stuck with. I think the sentence is technically not a conditional, because Steve is going to run the ad here whether the audience has seen it or not. Actually he does, I've seen it on iTunes. I remember that my grammar...

Hi,... and somebody says it's subjunctive. See also:http://www.englishforums.com/English/ChangingTenses/dqcdx/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/WhichSentencesAreCorrect/zjbhp/post.htm

> I didn't see anything in the present tense though.Use your imagination, there are many possibilities out there for the mixed variety. You just need to read more authors:-), don't just learn grammar. If that is the case, wouldn't it make more sense to bring him along too?...