Please what about these answers for the situations...let me know if am I right (grammaticaly speaking) 1. In general we cannot go on Sunday to work at less with an autorization, so i have two alternatives. Might my coworker has done something

1.     A group IS ...  (Not important who is in the group). A group is a singular, countable noun. 3.    Both wrong.     She went home half an hour ago. Given, finished time requires simple past UNLESS it relates to another action in the past.

In much of the talk about English grammar you will find discussions of modals or discussions of modal verbs . These are the same thing. CJ

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write

When we talk about a subjunctive construction, I think it is easier to understand it without the 'inserted clause, I would think' becasue that way one can clearly see the cause-and-effect relationship beteween the conditional clause and the

If we use passive voice, we don't have to change it in reported speech. Am I right? JTT: That's right. Sounds your books are telling merely that some native speakers don't do always the tense backshift in direct-to-indirect speech

Paco: I have already answered this question to you. I wrote here: Paco, there is not any English Grammar book, or other book from which I've taken my feeling that we don't have to change the passive when we're using reported speech. I just

Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the

Paco: Thank for your answers. The same to JTT. I promise not more questions about passive and reported speech. Now I think I get it. Paco, there is not any English Grammar book, or other book from which I've taken my feeling that we don't have to

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