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Hi, I saw the girl I used to go out in high school. It had been very long ago and it was hard to come out with the exact number of years back but it looked to be about 20 years ago. She used to have brown hair but she now seemed to have black hair. I wonnder if she dyed her hair. She was dining...

I know 'would' carries many meanings. My problem is sometimes I find it difficult to tell which meaning the speaker uses. I think I understand its hypothetical usage, and in some contexts, its politeness usage. Below is a post that has several woulds I have trouble interpreting. I also...

Hi Anon I'm glad that someone finally decided to try to do this test. I assume that in this test you are supposed to decide whether to use the present continuous or the simple present tense . (A few of the sentences will also work with a tense other than a present tense). The words in...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of...

hi there, I have a question about the following dialogues. Why did Todd use 'was wondering' instead of present tense because he used simple present 'do' in the rest of his conversation? .. Todd: Oh, really. What room number are you? Phil: I'm 443. Todd: Ah, OK. Actually, I'm 430,...

Khoff wrote: Trying to reach your husband, you accidentally listen to a conversation about planning a murder. After a lot of confusion and frustration, you later realize that you are going to be killed! >> (keep the tenses consistent.) “Sorry, Wrong Number” is an exciting,...

Hi I've added some initial comments in red. Sort out the structure and post up another draft for help with the final version. Why are you using a capital I for the word incentives throughout? I write to you to apply for the study course "International Tourism Management". I look at this...

Trying to reach your husband, you accidentally listen to a conversation about planning a murder. After a lot of confusion and frustration, you later realize that you are going to be killed! >> (keep the tenses consistent.) “Sorry, Wrong Number” is an exciting, fast-paced adventure...

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 usage of the present progressive tense. JTT:...

Your toes look pretty sharp and nimble to me, Paco! I think doubt often does arise, for native speakers, when they're using this structure in written English. I've had conversations like the one above on a number of occasions, when someone has suddenly doubted their own intuition while writing...