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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'....

Hi,I would like to change this sentence into passive: " We measured the amplitude by calculating the RMS value"Is this correct?: " the amplitude is measured by calculating the RMS value" You need to use past tense.I know that in a passive 'by' is used to indicate the...

16: is known as (passive structure; active form: We know Boston as the Hub...) 17. storing, erasing and retrieving (These are parallel and should be in the same form.) 18. Professor Andom Iyassou ("Professor" is a title. If Andom Iyassou is one person, "professor" must be...

Thanks for the reply, still confused to use "Gerund" (-ing). May i know more about how to use Gerund?

.A Singaporean man was sentenced (past passive) to two weeks’ jail and fined S$500 for tampering(intransitive verb)(Question 2 -How come is "ing" is not "tampered"-- It is a gerund) with his vehicle’s fuel gauge.52—year—old Mr *** pleaded guilty to two charges on August 5 for...

Does the applicant have experience utilizing computerized tomography? What is the underlined part called in English grammar? Why must the -ing form be used? Is it an adverbial, a gerund form, or something different? and I want to have my house painted. What is painted called? It is not the...

Hoa Thai wrote: Belly wrote: Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the...

Belly wrote:Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the other uses the past...

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...