By Constructions, Simple present

Hi, YSchneider. I am not a native speaker and this is indeed a tough grammar point for non-native speakers.Here is an extract from CGEL*: Did you lock the front door?

>To me, 'is likely' denotes present timeNo, it looks into the future, as any forecast would, and this is one. Simple present or even present perfect are used in constructions which refer to the future. Tense and time are not the same.

Hi all, Here is my observations: Ant222 said: Using Present Perfect here is as incorrect as in «What have you been doing yesterday?» My comment: “Yesterday” is a direct time reference constructed into the same sentence in this case which violates rule #1 of present perfect tense. ...

I think it is more an observation than a rule, Hanuman, but simple present tense is used to denote future meanings in dependent conditional and temporal clauses (clauses introduced by when, if, unless, etc) instead of the will construction. It also appears in some that clauses: I hope (that) it...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

Hi Musesun"This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden".Have you learned how to make...

Hi, Grammar Geek! Thank you!!! But I have other questions concerning to this verb ' I'd rather '(= prefer). Well, in the sentence below in spite of the verb is prefer to, the idea of it is in the simple present,so when the verb to prefer is being used in the simple present or simple past...