By Past perfect, Sentence structures

<<<<Such concepts as tense, gerund, participle, clause (and classification thereof) are wihtout a slightest doubt useful and sometimes even essential to the learning of English (at least, this is so for me). <<<Furthermore, I try to undrstand things logically and find...

"The Change of the Characteristics in the passage from The Hours" The passage from the novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham is intriguing. The passage illustrates the difference between the character's characteristics in different time settings: past and present. This difference is...

Kooyeen, If my comment meant anything , or for whatever it is worth, this is what I understand: These 2 sentences are type 3 Conditional (past perfect conditional) . It doesn’t matter where “never” is placed, meaning is the same. You will find # 1 more commonly used. 1) If you hadn't told...

Please don't correct the sentence structure. I know it's wrong but just wanted to know whether past tense and past perfect could be used together.And what does the clause "Australia was what had been known as the antipodes, " means in this very structureIn the minds of many people living in...

I think it's fine/tolerated, a simplification from the full/stricter: It was only after I closed the door that I remembered (that) I had forgotten the keys. The final relative ("that") in this one above allows a tense simplification in the subordinate after it (I had forgotten->I...

Hi, Glad you asked this question. How English speaking people use English does not represent the correctness of their English. That said, I would say what you hear depends a lot on the class of people you converse with and this has nothing to do with economics. By that, I mean rich people don’t...

1) I hope to the birthday party tonight. (a) I' shall able to come (b)to be able to come <<answer B is correct. After the verb “hope” it’s almost always followed by infinitive. If this sentence structure is too complex, you can replace with “ I can...

RE: I didn't stop until I (had) reached the top" an attempt wrote: Some confusion arises if we do use the Past Perfect here: it appears that the action in the first clause, “not stopping” (i.e. going up the hill), came first and the action in the second was after that going. So we see that in...

I read in my English grammar book: I would have been (past conditional) happy if he had come (past perfect). I read in a novel a sentence structure that I never encountered but it is similar to the contrary-to-fact structure: James wondered absently how different his life might have been had he...