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Hi Redkiddy,1. No one was to give her the present No one was to have given her the present. What is the difference? What do they mean? I have to admit that I 've never seen these expressions before,so I have no idea what they both mean or if there's any difference. I use the construction...

No, no one should ever say "Cricket used to be played by them". But we can say "Cricket used to be played in my school", The “ subject +Used to +verb” construction is often used to described something one did it the past and it’s always expressed in “past tense”. For example: I used to...

Hi, 'He was known to the police'. Isn't "known" an adjective there? I know what you mean, and I wouldn't say you are wrong. Let me quote a little from a book I like, 'Teaching Tenses' by Rosemary Aitken. I like the way she looks at it. In all passives, the past participle forms a kind of...