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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 other uses 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 progressive...

Question 1Although the question has already been answered I should like to comment on why arise is the correct choice The subject of the clause should any difference arise is difference which is singular and third person One of the fundamental principles of English grammar is that the subject and...

Turkgokhan40 wrote many countries start paying more attention to the role of sports in life many generations of youth will have grown up unaware of the uses of working up their bodies A While B Before C By the time D During E After I don t find an exact answer Could you help me many countries...

CalifJim wrote If a student points to some construction and asks me if it s the subjunctive or not I can t reply No it s a monkey Now there you are wrong You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your students...

Yulysess wrote Hi creolejazz The rule you search lies I think in the grammatical unit called Nominal Clauses Nominal ing clauses that is participle clauses or as pieanne illustrated above gerunds The commomest type of participle clause is that which has no subject When a is subject required...

Ooh yes very nice addition and it fits well with the ambiguity notion If a speaker wants to express two thoughts tense tense wherein tense refers to a subject verb structure and the subject in the lesser clause is the same as the subject in the main clause then as a means of efficiency the...