Thank you Clive for the critique. For the New York sentence, is there anything wrong or misleading in the construction that needs to be reworded. After the rewording, the original past perfect context has been erased. Maybe I tried too hard to

The problem you are having is that the felt goes with she and the convicted goes with her son , and so you can not say She felt convicted by the media... As a result you have to put her son into a subordinate something (clause, whatever) to keep

I understand that this sentence is difficult, possibly even tortured. Were I to publish it, I would probably rewrite it to something like: " played on rock radio. I believe rock radio would not have played it if the song had been performed

Dear teachers, In the following sentence, I think the third conditional is used. If I would have known about the team tryouts, I would have signed up for them. Why, then, the "would have" construction is used in the

From the book, I learned that there are 5 If ... Then patterns. 1. If present, then present 2. If present, then can/may 3. If present, then future 4. If hypothetical subjunctive, then conditional If pete ATE pizza tomorrow, THEN he WOULD

What is the best way to identify subjunctives? It may be better just to ignore them! English has so few forms that are obviously subjunctive that it's not often you'll see them. Most subjunctive forms are the same as non-subjunctive forms,

Fewer students have played truant since the new system was implemented. It's common construction with using Present Perfect in one clause and Past Simple in since-clause. It has been ages since I saw him. __ In sentence with since we

The participle form (present, past) can be used as an adjective which modifies a noun. The present participle describes a noun that is involved in an activity at the same relative time as the main verb in the sentence. Scratching his fleas, the

Anon: I did not find your opinion in the article. There are many sentences that are very hard to understand. I have underlined the problem areas, and made some comments. Hastes make a big loss. (what is hastes?) The development plan has at long

Hi  i have deadline tomorrow.The task is to present my product here is what i have written. Every time i do a writing task, I dont do it well my teacher said Crying" border="0">. Well i hope people here can help me a lot