By Past perfect, Prepositions

Applicant: Hello. I'm here for that job for which you need a technician. My grammar is good. For example, I never end a sentence with a preposition. *smile*Employer: Oh, that don't matter. *smile* We gotta do some stuff with computers, websites, y'know, crap like that. *light a cigar*...

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 idea. Why...

Thank you for your interest to share us But, your sentence may mean that the main concern of the topic is the council while it is really not And by deleting the preposition "at", this ignores that the complaints were lodged to that council Also, the past perfect tense in "had...

Hi Pres1dentYou 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...

i. Our basketball team tried hard but was defeated in the long run. Nobody could say anything. "All that can be done has been done," said the coach.can I change it to "had been done"? As I think it is a past event.-- No. It is not a past event. Be carefula bout can and has done. It is completely...

There are sunshine every season. There is sunshine in every season. (sunshine is singular - so is, not are, and you need the preposition in) California winter is not as cold as the Winter of Ohio, instead it is mild.The California winter is not as cold as winter in Ohio; instead, it is...

Hu Jintao last visited India in 1984. Twenty-two years later, as the Chinese president renewed ties with his closest Asian rival, he saw an India that had changed considerably. 1. Mr Jintao last visited India in 1984.2. He visited India again last week or rather 22 years later.The so-called...

Hello Mr Pedantic. You write: "So I would read your sentence thus: 1. is not true." And earlier, in your previous post: “You can rephrase the sentence as follows: 1. I didn't stop (walking) until I had reached the top. 2. I didn't: stop (walking) until I had reached the top. 3. It is not...

an attempt wrote: In case the background of the original question is still unclear, you may have a look here: http://info.study.ru/index.cgi?open=1040328225_34110. That’s where the question comes from. I see, and thank you for the link. Seems to me the discussion surrounds the semantic...

Hello Casi Hats off to your analysis! Very nice work indeed. Your notion of is something of an enigma. It is the most obviously dangly of structures, when it does dangle; yet its form is seemingly ambiguous. Again, hats off to your analysis! Some fine disentangling. MrP