By Negatives, Past perfect

Re: Question about what tense to use in this kind of sentences.

conditional sentences are four types: the first is called probable condition in the future like if i see you at the party tomorrow, i will give the prize. if we meet in the conference hall tonight, we will take a group photo. the second is an unreal condition, or contrary to the fact condition or...

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"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Re: I want to find some friend to talk and improve my english

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

Re: contingent on the prior completion of the other

Hi, I wasn't going to *** because he had previously done yyyyyyyyyy. The first action, ***, is contingent on the prior completion of the other, yyyyyyy. The past perfect is appropriate for yyyyyyyyyy. I know, contingent on = depending on; but I still cannot understand the highlighed...

Re: past perfect in dependent clause

CalifJim wrote:<<He got up before the sun had risen.>> Yes. Here it's not a matter of the sun's rising never happening, but of the sun not yet rising at the time of the getting up. So phrasing it as "never happening" is clearly not correct. "not yet happening by the time of...

Re: past perfect in dependent clause

Students are often led to believe that the past perfect must indicate a situation that existed before another. (This is true in general.) But, following this logic, it seems that the past perfect could never occur in a before clause. (It 'should' only occur in the main clause in such...

Re: Present and past perfect

Kooyeen wrote:Hi,I already asked about this, apparently I didn't understand or got no answer. Here:There's a guy who's trying to run through a wall of flames with his bicycle, completely naked. He starts, he passes through the flames, he succeeds. Everyone applaudes. After a few minutes, after...

Re: not until..

We can not use a negative past perfect tense as the tense of the main verb of an untıl clause.I understand this to mean: We cannot use a negative past perfect tense in the main clause when an until clause is present in the same sentence. This is false. There is a simple reason why we were...

Re: not until..

Then , we can not use negative past perfect in the main part , can we?

Re: not until..

Mr-Taciturn wrote: Then can we say that : We can not use a negative past perfect tense as the tense of the main verb of an untıl clause. As in below; Until it stopped raining, we hadn't left the house. What you think of this one?We didn't leave the house until it stopped raining. ...