Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

This sentence looks wrong to me...Please help and tell me why! I can't even begin to guess why the sentence looks wrong to you. Perhaps it's because it is ambiguous whether spread is a present tense or a past participle in an implied

She's had to do a lot of work. = She has had to do a lot of work. "She has has to do a lot of work" doesn't make sense. It's Present Perfect tense here, which means you need the construction "to have + past participle". More examples: I have

Hello everyone, I wish it would stop raining – I know ‘wish’ and ‘would’ are the key to the construction - but I don’t know what the tense is… Subject + wish + it (what is it?)+ would (modal auxiliary verb) + verb + gerund Hi, You

The problem you are having is that the felt goes with she and the convicted goes with her son , and so you can not say She felt convicted by the media... As a result you have to put her son into a subordinate something (clause, whatever) to keep

Hi, This is a present perfect passive construction, much like "he has been promoted to a store manager recently". But some would consider verbs like "married, interested, tired and pleased etc.." a particple adjective. A

Hi, This is a present perfect passive construction, much like "he has been promoted to a store manager recently". But some would consider verbs like "married, interested, tired and pleased etc.." a particple adjective. A

In this sentence, " Perhaps you are aware that the construction company has agreed to retain many of the trees that are now growing on the property .", I'm wonderring why the present perfect tense was used. Please help. Thanks so much!

Look up and study "participles". In the case at hand, the use of being amounts to "since ... was ..." or "because ... was ...". The participial construction is untensed, but takes its tense from the main clause,

Hello, I have been working on my assignment, and these questions have been troubling me. I was wondering, if anyone could just have a look at my answers and rational, to let me know where my mistakes lie. Thanks for the help. *My answers will be