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Hi Pres1dentYou should break up long posts such as this one into several short posts That way it s much easier for other people to comment I ve made suggestions Some of the sentences in these exercises don t sound terribly natural so there are also suggestions in places where there were no...

Let s spread out the issue a little bit ____ O ____ Type 2 Basic forms a If we caught the 10 o clock train we would could might etc get there by lunch time b If I came into a fortune I would give up smoking c If I knew how it worked I could tell you what to do In these sentences the conditional...

CalifJim wrote The sentence is complicated by the fact that you can make the past of can by using could but you have to make the past of must by using must have And must have been is not a past perfect tense by the way It s one of the modal perfect tenses most of which have special uses Let s...

Julielai wrote Just out of curiosity Mr P how do you distinguish a native speaker who s learned a non standard form of English from a decent non native speaker e g How can you tell if a speaker born in India Singapore or other Asian countries is native Hello Julie I m not sure I always could...

Hello This is a garbage like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods indicative subjunctive and two tenses...