http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aNumbers+tag%3aPast+tenses+tag%3aNounsSearch results for 'tag:Numbers tag:Past tenses tag:Nouns' matching tags 'Numbers', 'Past tenses', and 'Nouns'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarCheck/hrdhg/post.htm#585639Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:03:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:585639alpheccastars Ellisa This is a very long passage and your other post seems to be even longer The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages Also many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post If you post only one paragraph at a time then different teachers can work on them and you will get your corrections faster quote user Ellisa Hello teachers I m summarising a book which is about teaching methods I guess there are millions of errors Please check those to right one suggest corrections to my sentences Thanks in advance 13 Teaching grammar There are two main ways to teaching grammar or you can say ways of teaching grammar The word teaching is a gerund and must be used as a noun In this example it is object of the preposition of One way is both planning grammar teaching in advance and relying on the coursebooks which can help us teach grammar The other way is teaching grammar as a result of other work In other words it is has done as a peripheral activity In this chapter we will look at the various different ways to teach grammar We will look at the range of activities which satisfy not merely efficiency but also appropriacy not a word you can use the adjective forms a range of activities which are efficient as well as appropriate Lastly we will discuss grammar books and their usages You need to be consistent in using imperative versus declarative sentences A Introducing grammar The following 1 to 4 examples numbered 1 to 4 are activities which represent a range of possibilities for introducing new grammar Ex1 It s making sentences using the present simple in the third singular First the teacher holds up a number of flashcards which are about a specific job Then subject the students make sentences in contained present simple tense for the each pictures It consists or The exercise consists of of three affirmative and three negative sentences Then subject the teacher makes the students guess what kind of job it is Once students are confident in with these sentences the teacher asks them to think of one profession and make 6 sentences Now they can do activities guessing what profession is being described Ex2 It s using texts which contained present tense what the students are being taught past simple irregular verbs While the students read the text they come across blanks that they must fill in with the past tense form of certain verbs Then subject the teacher makes them write these past tense verb forms down in the blanks and also write them phonetically using which are shown their phonemic symbols Ex3 This is aimed to show the differences between reporting direct speech and reporting things that were said in the past The teacher draws Draw two people on the board One whose name is Jack is holding a phone and smiling whose name is Jack The other is just standing The teacher gives the Give students the information that Jack is talking to a girl who he met in the school canteen Then the teacher asks the students what Jack tells his friend while taking on the phone The answers might be in the present form such as She says I m really nice In this process the teacher makes sure that the students understand how you changes to I The teacher now tells the students that Jack is back home and he was spurned by the girl He is telling to his mother that She said I was really nice which is past form The teacher can write both past and present forms on the board to help students Ex4 Here the language which the students are were going to study is was embedded in the texts which they read The teacher makes the students read the story first After confirming that they are fully understanood the story by asking comprehension questions the teacher asks them to make bad or insensible statements using the story Then the get students to come up to the board and write the sentences so that The sentences have to use the modal auxillary should such as ncluding Should have p p or Shouldn t have p p especially here quote http://www.englishforums.com/English/SentenceDilemma/gmxwn/post.htmTue, 09 Sep 2008 22:09:38 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:564277anonymous1 Why does it have to be a past tense Which event occurred first The conference has been involved in controversy for over a year before the first president arrived 2 Can the underlined part looks to me like a prepositional phrase act as a noun or a complement I don t which it is Should it be ways and not way in the phrase The number one way The number one way I like to spend my time is with my family and work http://www.englishforums.com/English/SuggestionsImprovingGrammarSite/zlcxg/post.htmMon, 04 Feb 2008 14:47:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:472470grammarfixerupperHello I am new to the site was led here by a search engine and am surprised to see a number of grammatical errors in and around the site in general I haven t looked everywhere but below you will find a list of the ones that I noticed right off the bat The site mistakenly uses in many places including the welcome e mail login and logout as verbs however the verb is two words log in or log out The noun adjective can be one word but never can the verb In other words it would be correct to say that I log in at the login page Many sites are guilty of this offense including those of major corporations The real test is to put the verb in the past tense You wouldn t say that She loginned yesterday one word Rather you would say that She logged in yesterday two words Other common misuses though not necessarily seen on this site include pickup checkout and rollover The paragraph on the main page needs some commas which I ve added between asterisks According to Alexa we re now the world s busiest EFL forum with up to 30 000 visits each day Kudos to our amazing team Due to massive demand LIVE chat is here Please read the guidelines terms and conditions before posting PLEASE DO NOT POST PERSONAL CONTACT ADDRESSES Register here we will never send you spam Finally there is a little phrase at the top right hand corner when one is logged in It says Welcome back XYZ where XYZ is the username Because someone is being addressed in this phrase there should be a comma after back Thank you for your attention and keep up the great work Warm regards Andyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/PartSpeechIdentification/zrrgn/post.htmWed, 12 Sep 2007 20:16:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:417720anonymous Hello this is my first post here I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone if it s what kind of noun it s proper noun or abstract noun or etc After that I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the stanfard parser at http nlp stanford edu 8080 parser index jspif you input convert kilometer to centimeterit gives convert VB kilometer NN to TO centimeter VB if you input convert 2 kilometers to centimeterit gives convert VB 2 CD kilometers NNS to TO centimeter NN You can refer to the tagset below my question is is the first input setence correct if it s correct the part of speech given by the program seems to be incorrect becausethe centimeter should be noun instead of Verb or am I wrong If you add the 2 as the second input the program gives the correct part of speech tagging it it because my first input grammar is incorrect Thank you Reference1 CC Coordinating conjunction 25 TO to 2 CD Cardinal number 26 UH Interjection 3 DT Determiner 27 VB Verb base form 4 EX Existential there 28 VBD Verb past tense 5 FW Foreign word 29 VBG Verb gerund present participle 6 IN Preposition subord 30 VBN Verb past participle 218z conjunction 7 JJ Adjective 31 VBP Verb non 3rd ps sing present 8 JJR Adjective comparative 32 VBZ Verb 3rd ps sing present 9 JJS Adjective superlative 33 WDT wh determiner 10 LS List item marker 34 WP wh pronoun 11 MD Modal 35 WP Possessive wh pronoun 12 NN Noun singular or mass 36 WRB wh adverb 13 NNS Noun plural 37 Pound sign 14 NNP Proper noun singular 38 Dollar sign 15 NNPS Proper noun plural 39 Sentence final punctuation 16 PDT Predeterminer 40 Comma 17 POS Possessive ending 41 Colon semi colon 18 PRP Personal pronoun 42 Left bracket character 19 PP Possessive pronoun 43 Right bracket character 20 RB Adverb 44 Straight double quote 21 RBR Adverb comparative 45 Left open single quote 22 RBS Adverb superlative 46 Left open double quote 23 RP Particle 47 Right close single quote 24 SYM Symbol 48 Right close double quote http://www.englishforums.com/English/AnswerTheseQuestions/drwxl/post.htm#253124Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:22:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:253124califjimAn acronym is considered a noun so according to the rules you cite ZZZ related should be the form ____________ Always supposed to Never suppose to It s not really a past tense form It s a past participle used as an adjective just like tired in He is tired The true past of suppose is seen in this sentence We supposed that Bob would be home but we were wrong ____________ Christmas and season are both countable nouns You must therefore use the or a with them The sentences without any articles are not correct ____________ It should be kinds were and these are both plural kinds not kind agrees in number with those words CJ http://www.englishforums.com/English/LikeImMadWhyNotWereWasMad/cbjqw/post.htm#174836Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:44:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:174836rvwMary Ansell has a chapter on the subjunctive mood at http www fortunecity com bally durrus 153 gramch09 html One of the complications in using the subjunctive is the fact that besides hypothetical condition clauses which require the subjunctive there are factual condition clauses that do not The following is a post I made on another forum There are two kinds of condition clauses factual ones in which the condition is a factual statement and hypothetical ones in which the condition is either known to be false or is being speculated about in an experimental sort of way In factual condition clauses normal verb tenses and moods are used In hypothetical condition clauses the subjunctive mood is used followed sometimes by auxiliary verbs like would or could in the main clause ExamplesFactual If the bridge collapses cars will fall into the river Factual If the bridge collapsed last week the town has been isolated since then Hypothetical If the bridge were to collapse or Were the bridge to collapse cars would fall into the river Hypothetical If the bridge had collapsed last week or Had the bridge collapsed last week cars would have fallen into the river Factual If it looks like a horse and walks like a horse and talks like a horse it s a horse Factual If it looked like a horse it probably was a horse Hypothetical If I were a horse or Were I a horse I could run faster Hypothetical If I had been a horse or Had I been a horse I could have won the Kentucky Derby Factual If she is your sister your DNA will match Hypothetical Were she or If she were your sister your DNA would match Hypothetical If she had been your sister or Had she been your sister your DNA would have matched Factual You are advised to call the Centre for assistance if you encounter the noise nuisance again Hypothetical If the noise were to recur we were to call the Centre Hypothetical Had the noise recurred we would have called the Centre In Understanding Grammar Paul Roberts says there are only two tenses in the subjunctive present and past Present Subjunctive A verb form used chiefly for hypothetical statements and in noun clauses after verbs of ordering asking urging etc In form the present subjunctive is identical with the infinitive without to be do have seem walk etc Thus though the present subjective of the verb be is markedly different from the indicative I be you be he be etc against indicative I am you are he is in other verbs the moods differ only in the third person singular he walk she sing it seem etc against indicative he walks she sings it seems We can call on Beesley if need be If it be love indeed tell me how much God forbid that he should believe such a thing It s important that you be ready by twelve Suffice it to say the Edith is Mulroy s sister I ask only that he come and talk it over We urged that he be permitted to smoke Past Subjunctive A verb form used chiefly for unreal or hypothetical statements Only two distinctive past subjunctive forms remain in Modern English I were and he she it were against the indicative I was and he was The term past subjunctive is also applied however to other verbs used for unreal statements such verbs are identical in form with the past tense of the indicative but they customarily point to present rather than past time If I were you I would watch my language I d say the same if she were my own sister What would you do if you were given complete charge If I had a million dollars I d give it all to you I wish he were here now Henry looked at her as if she were insane If he knew he couldn t help us If Brempkin had been there we might have won The past subjunctive occurs most often in subordinate clauses introduced by if as if though or as though Now to answer your questions 1 It smells as if someone has been smoking in here I think maybe someone has been smoking I agree A factual statement as if someone has been smoking in here 2 Do you hear that music It sounds as if they are having a party I think maybe there is a party near here Another factual statement as if they are having a party 3 It smells as if someone had been smoking in here I think or I m sure nobody has smoked but it seems someone has Factual It smells as if someone has been smoking in here Reworded hypothetical If someone were to smoke in here it would smell this way 4 She talks as if she knew evrything She doesn t know everything I don t think this works as a hypothetical in the present tense It is just factual She talks as if she knows everything I think it would have to be reworded to form a hypothetical If she were omniscient she would talk that way In the past tense it could be counter factual hypothetical She talked as if she knew everything 5 They are looking at me as if I were mad So I think I m not mad As a counter factual statement In the present tense They are looking at me as if I be mad In the past tense They looked at me as if I were mad 6 They are looking at me as if I am mad Am I saying there is a possibility I am mad Here s my problem As a factual statement Present They are looking at me as if I am mad I m not Past They were looking at me as if I was mad I was not See the addendeum AddendumThe use of the subjunctive were versus the indicative was is uncertain for at least two reasons 1 After expressions of a wish and in contrary to fact and hypothetical statements was began to compete with were in these contexts sometime around the end of the 16th century Webster s Dictionary of English Usage In some cases was is seen as being more emphatic Would to the Lord there was not But was is also used in unemphatic expressions I wish I was six feet tall and I wouldn t mind if I was handsome And More by Andy Rooney Was is likewise common in unemphatic contexts after if as if and as though The situation in the Middle East might be very different if there was an international left with a strong base Noam Chomsky Columbia Forum Winter 1969 One of the curiosities of the was were competition is the tendency of many writers to use both often very close together even in the same sentence and all staring gravely as if it were a funeral at me as if I was the coffin Henry Adams letter 15 May 1859I wish I was a dog and Ronald Reagan were a Jelly Bean tree Reinhold Aman Maledicta 1982But the subjunctive continues in speech and especially in writing 2 The degree to which a statement is hypothetical or even if it is hypothetical is often uncertain Your sentences numbers 5 and 6 are exquisitely in between To my ear was sounds as natural as were Since either is apt to be used my advice is to determine the intention from the context when reading When writing I would stay with the subjunctive in hypothetical condition clauses http://www.englishforums.com/English/Grammar/xxrb/post.htm#72829Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:18:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:72829casi1 Derivation often changes the word s lexical category but not always great adjective great ly greatly adverb dog noun dog house doghouse noun 2 Inflection doesn t change the word s lexical category It adds meaning number person tense Number dog singular noun dog s dogs plural noun Person walk present verb walk s walks 3rd person present verb Tense walk present verb walk ed walked past tense verb 3 Derivation occurs close to the word whereas inflection occurs outside the derivation Derivation dog noun dog house doghouse Inflection doghouse singular noun doghouse s doghouses plural noun Ungrammatical dogs houses dogshouses Above inflectional s is added to a noun and then another noun houses is added to that The result is ungrammatical First derivation and then inflection Derivation dog house Inflection doghouse s doghouses I hope that helps If not please let us know http://www.englishforums.com/English/BasicRulesOfGrammar/nlgr/post.htm#67150Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:46:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:67150califjimSay the right words in the right order Make subjects and verbs agree in number Use the correct case for all pronouns Add ed to form the past tense Add s to form plurals Add s to form possessives Invert subject and verb in a question Don t use a countable singular noun without an article Put adjectives in front of the nouns they modify Put compliments before adjuncts Put a form of don t before the verb to negate it Those are the basics There are a lot of exceptions of course To understand English grammar well you need to go very far beyond the basics CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ConfusePersonalPronouns/kzkj/post.htm#50754Sun, 17 Oct 2004 03:42:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:50754casiIn addition to Mister Micawber s seasoned and excellent advice here are a couple of quick tips and cool tricks When you re not sure which pronoun to use there are two things you can do 1 Replace the pronoun with a word that makes sense to you like this Question Who did it I did it She did it He did it They did and so on 2 Change the sentence around so that it makes sense to you like this Statment It s them I spoke to I spoke to them By the way Let s is a contraction of Let us The pronoun us is only compatible with the pronouns me her him them it and you Whenever you see If were remind yourself that it s not the past tense of the verb BE It s a completely different verb It expresses but I am not like this If I were you but I am not you I would go to London and study If I were rich but I am not rich I would buy a car If he were single but he is not single she would marry him The verb were is regular for all persons and numbers That is If I were If you were If s he were If it were If they were If we were http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarHelpPlease/2/vgmx/Post.htm#21604Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:34:15 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:21604rommieWe ve pretty much covered the apple with all it s various different shades of meaning above Your mention of singular pronoun is misleading however Everything would work out exactly the same if it had said Our instead of My The number of the pronoun is irrelevant here only the number of the fruit which is always singular because it s a mass noun and the apple The are in the cheapest food are cakes is I m afraid wrong So is the combination wanted wants in sentence 3 This is how it works The following are both grammatically correct 2a Cakes ARE the cheapest food 2b The cheapest food IS cake The form of to be is or are is taken from the LEFT HAND ITEM Hence if one item is singular and the other plural the form of to be should be consistent with whatever s on the left If food is on the left you need is Sentence 3 mixes tenses and so sounds wrong It should be either 3a She wanted to go to the library because she WANTED to borrow books stick to past tense throughout 3b She WANTS to go to the library because she wants to borrow books stick to present tense thoughout There are also better ways of saying the same thing e g 3c She wanted to go to the library to borrow books i e omit because she wants 3d She wanted to go to the library IN ORDER to borrow books means the same as 3c