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hi: I have a question about English tense. could you explain the use of tense in the following paragraph? (bold italic added) "In the 16th c. there are some traces of a perception that the word might have an extended application to other languages. But it was not before the 17 th c. that...

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...

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than one? If it is more than one, add an 's'....

Hi there. Welcome to EF. The differense between them happens to be interchangeable in some informal way or in narratives. We use Past Simple along with Present Perfect when we're talking about events happened in the past, but Present Perfect points that event may occur in the present again....

Hello, everyone: I don't understand the following paragraph, cited from a grammar book, could you help me please? "there is an idiomatic exception to the rule that the simple past tense indicates definite meaning: this is the construction with "always" illustrated by "I...

Aristotle's Ethics Hi, Essays should not include a table of contents. I started off 'bolding' my edits, but then stopped doing that, so just read carefully please. I've just looked at the introduction, whch took me a while. Content 1. The significance of ethics...

I need to write a short story for my GCSE and i'm having difficulty effectively configuring the last paragraph. My teacher says i need to build tension at the start of the paragraph and maybe generating a sympathetic response in the end..as well as i feel the last sentence's structure...

An Anonymous' s post on the subject of the ' difference between 'can' and ' able ' contains a post thread (#354509 ) in which Mister Micawber says that 'can' and ' be able to ' have the same meaning and instructs the main poster to use ' I can't...

Hello: 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...

Davidrock65 wrote: Harrys English has made incredible progress since I started teaching him. His pronunciation is getting better and better. Please have him review the past form of verbs, as I noticed that he had forgot some of them, and read as many as he can, the sentences in the past that...