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Hi Your sentence is in the present perfect. " Have you ever had ..." " the feeling " is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Tanit 74 days ago Nouns, Articles, Verbs, Past Perfect, Auxiliaries, Present Perfect, Synonyms, Clauses, Gerunds, Present Continuous
Re: tense - why wrong?

The past perfect tense serves only to place a narration in the "more distant past," without determining its particular time or duration , as follows: "He had risen early that morning and had drunk coffee earlier than usual. – Wikipedia. There are many ways to express an...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by 26TMNTJG2PG 188 days ago Articles, Verbs, Prepositions, Tenses, Past Perfect, Paragraphs
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Just to summarize: had arrested = past perfect form of the verb 'arrest' had to = simple past form of 'have to' Although it is more common to say 'the police', the word 'police' is also sometime used without the definite article ('the') -- especially...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 207 days ago Articles, Verbs, Past Perfect, Simple Past, Definite Articles
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Hi Pres1dent You should break up long posts such as this one into several short posts. That way it's much easier for other people to comment. I've made suggestions. Some of the sentences in these exercises don't sound terribly natural, so there are also suggestions in places where there were no...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Yankee 360 days ago Grammar, Articles, Prepositions, Verbs, Past Perfect, Modals, Modal Verbs, Constructions, Direct Speech
Re: past tense or past perfect tense?

What do you think of this sentence, which I have read in the Arab News Newspaper of Wednesday 28 Nov. The sentence is as follows: "Iran yesterday announced that it has built a new missile with a range sufficient to put Israel and US bases in the Middle East within easy reach..." Source:...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Magic79 1 yr 5 days ago Articles, Verbs, Tenses, Past Perfect, Simple Past, Present Perfect, Past Tenses
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Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

ESL Chat, Make Friends, Meet Friendly People by Quangtrungvtv 1 yr 83 days ago Grammar, Past Perfect, Tenses, Interviews, Simple Past, Negatives, Simple Present, Articles, Verbs, Present Tenses, Present Perfect
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Hi. I was reading some daily news and came across this article. Here is an excerpt from the article: Police officers met Dana Farrell Shelton after being called to investigate a disturbance at a bar on Sunday but had found no problems and told him to move along. Shelton, who officers said...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Xcalibur 1 yr 138 days ago Articles, Verbs, Past Perfect
Re: subjunctive past

Alienvoord wrote: thanks CB. The labels may not be important, but if we are to understand the structure of English, it's important to understand that the verb form used in your first example has a quite different distribution from the forms in your second and third examples. Calling them...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 2 yr 124 days ago Articles, Grammar, Verbs, Tenses, Nouns, Pronouns, Past Perfect, Subjunctives, Past Tenses
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thanks CB. The labels may not be important, but if we are to understand the structure of English, it's important to understand that the verb form used in your first example has a quite different distribution from the forms in your second and third examples. Calling them "present subjunctive"...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Alienvoord 2 yr 124 days ago Articles, Verbs, Tenses, Past Perfect, Subjunctives, Past Tenses

Anonymous wrote: I realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. Is this correct? What should this be? Thanks! Hope this article helps ..... LANGUAGE CORNER Lie, Lay, and All That Lie This to Rest? BY EVAN JENKINS No, of course...

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