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Just when the most confident.are should be were. It's a past tense sentence. (See verbs in blue.)(By the way, verbs don't modify nouns. are is a verb. athletes is a noun.) CJ

Hi,This is on page 660 #17 on the SAT OG Book.One of the brackets is suppose to contain an error. wrong? No. "That grew steeper . . .' is a subordinate clause that describes 'trail'.All the other verbs are in present tense, except this one. Or can the others be gerunds? No, they...

To be:he, she, it isI amwe, you, they are___ he, she, it, I waswe, you, they were ___he, she, it has beenI, we, you, they have been___he, she, it, I, we, you, they had been_____After a form of to be you can have an -ing form, an -en form (past participle), an adjective, or a noun. The tense...

I'm sorry I made a mistake. Of course it's a Nominal Clause. I hurried up. Her idea that I hire you was a very fun one.It's kind of Subjunctive. And as I know only Present Tense can be used in Nominal Clause. Her idea that I hire you is a very fun one.

CB's explanation is 100% right on. It is a linguistic question dealing with phonology. By the way, the same principle is in play with the plural noun ending 's/es': 's' after a non-voiced consonant (lamps, desks); 'z' after a voiced consonant or a vowel (dogs,...

some of the verb can be adjective, when ed is applied.. interest itself can be a verb or noun, it can be adjective though.. after ed is applied.. it is same with i am beautiful..

Thank you CJ and CB. Wow, so it is definitively wrong, I had no idea. I haven't heard this tense (have had + participle) being used in the real world, I thought it was because situation calling for that use was rare or it's too old-fashioned for modern English. Thank you for clearning...

I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

This quiz is given by the University of Cambridge as a free sample of Paper 1 (Reading), Part 2 (Gapped Sentences) of the ESOL Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE).This type of test assesses how well candidates understand the structure of the text and the development of the theme (so...

This is my take:The use of "would rather" is not restricted by time. In certain aspects, it contains a conditional element as well. Here is some info. Hope that helps your question.<EDITED by mod to credit your source.>