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Well, if action is meant, the tense is shown in the passive auxiliary to be: His texts are edited every morning. (No doubt the texts get placed in a state as a result.) English is not the most exact of languages as far as the passive is concerned. Context is often very important for correct...

I must admit I couldn't find much at all for errors in your essay, while I did take four years of English in college I don't consider myself a professional. Although this is what I found, you had too many spaces in the first paragraph. and a few present tense's in the fifth paragraph,...

Life on the Line My grandmother, Julie Lovins, put everything on the line for her job, including her life. She worked for the Leet Psychiatric Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky, and flew to various locations with Dr. Leet , a psychiatrist, to help patients. Dr. Leet had a contract with...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of...

Kilimanjaro wrote: Hello Cool Breeze, This sentence is taken from Michael SWAN's Practical English Usage. He says "might" can be used in such contexts Hi Kilimanjaro Yes, I know it's from that book. You mentioned it in a previous post. I didn't say it was right or wrong in my opinion. I...

Goodman wrote: Yes, you may say that. However, is more of an idiomatic expression'' , I think here idiomatic means that he is gone is very common expression to English speakers. Right? 2: Please explain the following sentence and shouldn't and are be used in front of used ? A ll...

CalifJim wrote: Welcome to English Forums! This is the going to of motion, not the going to of the future. Here are sentences which use both: I am going to go shopping. ( going of the future; go of motion) I am going to be going now. ( going of the future; going of motion)...

Gazapo wrote: There is nothing wrong with the way it is, but there are better ways to say it such as I am going to visit Aunt Carol tomorrow. But in your sentence, I will be going to visit Aunt Carol tomorrow , will be going = your action (what) to visit = your purpose (why) Hi...

Soylista wrote: I am confused with this expression, " will be going to + Vb ". eg. I will be going to visit Aunt Carol tomorrow. To me, this expression is sort of redundant. Why do you need to use both "will" and "be+going to"? I somewhat understand the differences between future meaning...

Mary Ansell has a chapter on the subjunctive mood at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch09.html. One of the complications in using the subjunctive is the fact that, besides hypothetical condition clauses, which require the subjunctive, there are factual condition clauses that do...