Welcome to Englishforums! Example 1.The first one is fine, it's a future conditonal. The second should be changed: If I sent..., how long would....This is a hypothetical conditional, so it uses the subjunctive mood. Example 2: The

Huevos, So am I correct to assume that your classification of “exhausted” is adjectival in nature? Perhaps, this is the difference between how you and I see it. For pure fact finding interest, I have done some more investigative research: Bear in

(b) is fine. I'm not keen on (a). It's fairly common to omit second and subsequent instances of "was" in passive sentences. For example "She was bitten by a snake and admitted to hospital". However, if the first item

In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action

Anonymous wrote: Hi~ I would like to know what's the difference (in terms of the underlined parts) between sentences 1 & 2. 1. Rob was devastated by the news of her death. 2. Rob was devastated . Is sentence 1 a passive

#1 - The party took place last night and you weren't there. You wanted to know if Jane was invited to the party. So you asked " was she invited to the party?". #2 - The party is next week and you wonder ifJ ane is among the guests invited. So

Lin1978 wrote: Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle

Anonymous wrote: Hi, all I'd like to ask you about using get + past participle in the sentences like that: When are we going to get paid? Pull over or you are going to get stoped in a different way. (I just made them up, so I may be wrong,

Hi Musesun "This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say

Mister Micawber wrote: Future Simple (I will sit) Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting) Future Perfect (I will have sat") Present Simple (I sit) Past Simple (I sat) Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting) Past Perfect (I had sat)