Hi, I've found a difficult sentence in a text I must translate. Apparently, is is not a typo, but I cannot quite understand what it means. The text has just described how oxen could be used to measure the price of articles, and

I still have trouble with this kind of construction s , You cannot have would had . Impossible. The only form of have which can directly follow a modal verb is have , never has, had, or having . These are the correct combinations: can have,

Hi everyone! I wouldbe very grateful to you if you can help me again. I met across such a phrase that was written under a photo: Photo created on Wednesday 1 May 2009. I thought we need use passive construction here:Photo was created

Hello, I have been working on my assignment, and these questions have been troubling me. I was wondering, if anyone could just have a look at my answers and rational, to let me know where my mistakes lie. Thanks for the help. *My answers will be

From the book, I learned that there are 5 If ... Then patterns. 1. If present, then present 2. If present, then can/may 3. If present, then future 4. If hypothetical subjunctive, then conditional If pete ATE pizza tomorrow, THEN he WOULD

Thank you so much! The ones with until can't be rephrased like that. They don't make sense as written. until is a tricky word, and not until is even trickier." But the sentences with until can be rephrased like this, can't they?

Thank you very much! Answer one more question, please. Can I rephrase the sentences like this? Are the sentences after the equal signs grammatical correct? Perhaps they are very awkward but grammatically correct, aren't they? It was I that

Is this correct? It was I that (who) met his sisters in the park yesterday. = That (who) met his sisters in the park yesterday was I. It was his sisters that (whom) I met in the park yesterday . = That (whom) I met in the park yesterday was his

...to make it sound distant... Help me understand the meaning of this expression in the folowing sentence, please. ...He was to place himself, not on the stage, but downstairs in the hall so as to make it sound distant . ...

http://www.englishstory.by.ru/shaw/serenade/index.html "The piece, written by myself , was a fairy play in three acts;" Maybe "myself"="me" in this sentence? "The piece, written by myself , was a fairy play in