In Paragraphs^x, Past tenses^x

Hi, There is a passage in my English textbook. In this passage there are two sentences with the simple present tense, in which I think the simple past tense should be used, and they are the following: 1. “there is always a toast” 2. “Many parties, social and political...

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...

Dear,sir Following are two short passages, and the question lies in them. Then the unexpected happened. I had no thought in reaching the natural heights that a human structure would be present. Normally, I would have avoided any such structure as I directed my steps toward the natural view. In...

Hi: It is a nice story! You just need to pay more attention to the tenses of all the verbs. If the story is in the past time, all the verbs must be in the past tense. the smoke that I had made.

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...