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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'....

.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...

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...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentence below correct in terms of grammar (verbs, nouns and so on that are italic)? Adjective They say that Simon is the strongest man in the fitness club. He is the strongest man on earth That is the strongest building in the city Neither Joan nor Jamie...

Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

MrPedantic wrote: On reflection, there is a possible ambiguity, which the past tense brings out a little better than the present: 1. I went fishing along the Thames. — gerund; = I went on a fishing trip along the Thames. 2. I went fishing along the Thames. — participle; = I went along the...

Toronto2001 wrote:There is no real difference to 'ring' or 'ringing'. Ringing is more in the past tense but both are suitable. "ringing" is a "ing" form (participle/gerund), unrelated to time/tense. A copula/auxilliary verb defines the tense (was ringing), or in this case the main verb heard.

Cocoon wrote:yes,this is clear, but I mean if the first part is in the past. is perf. inf obligatory? He will have read that book by tomorrow afternoon. this is not perfect infinitive!!! this is future perfect tense means that something will be completed until/at some time point in the...