By Indirect objects, Tenses

Hi there, I hope you can explain/tell the rule as to why these are wrong please: If I will be rich, I would retire. should beIf I were rich, I would retire.-the reasoning I came up with is can't use future tense (will be) here. Past tense can refer to future time. She described me the picture. ...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...

Hello Hela I'm inclined to agree with CJ about your example 2: 'It's (high/about) time she WAS in bed' seems the natural form, because you use this phrase when you have no doubt that the person should be in bed. I agree too that the past tense here indicates: 'by this time, you should...

It would be impossible to write everything there is to know about "voice" in English in just one post, but I hope the following will help. In English, a transitive verb can be used either in the 'active' or the 'passive' voice. If the person or thing denoted by the subject is the 'doer' of the...