In Cricket^x, Past tenses^x

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...

Hello Jisu In actual usage, you find both forms: the subjunctive (or past tense form) makes it sound more "remote" or "conjectural", and the indicative makes it sound more "immediate" or "real": 1. I feel as if I'm in the wrong job. — immediate; he does feel he's in the wrong job. 2. He...

Rotter: Sorry to say, but this is getting kind of not productive, your posting lots of quotations with plusperfect and trying to see if the authors weren't somehow wrong. I'd seriously suggest to stop posting on this subject and to read carefully and to reflect deeply about the previous...