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It is a verb The main clause in the sentence is Microsoft subject confirmed verb It is simple past tense You can verify that it is a verb by doing an experiment to change the tense present future etc Microsoft confirms Wednesday Wednesday is an adverb Microsoft will confirm Wednesday Microsoft...

quote user Avangi I don t know much about phrasal verbs they hadn t yet been invented when I was in school but I take graduated as a simple verb in the simple past tense and with first class honors as a prepositional phrase modifying the verb quote Avangi we analyze the sentence in exactly the...

Infinitives are verbals so they have some of the properties of verbs They can have subjects objects and adverb modification to love is an infinitive the marker to the verb to be loved by someone is on its own passive voice It has nothing to do with the voice or verbs in the rest of the sentence...

Would it be a correct grammar if I used would have been instead of would in the second sentence or I m required to use by now instead of now in the second sentence If I had done it a year ago I would be rich now If I had done it a year ago I would have been rich now by now I d also like to know...

Hi YSchneider I am not a native speaker and this is indeed a tough grammar point for non native speakers Here is an extract from CGEL Did you lock the front door 5 in a domestic situation where it is known that the front door is locked at bedtime every night In that case 5 is more or less...

ETJW CMD wrote Dear Goodman I am one of Hoa s friends a member of a friendly yet private English To Join the World Club that we co founded here in Vietnam Last night she showed me this thread and asked for my opinion My first reaction was that the present perfect and past tense combination in...

Hi HiroYes you can use the simple past tense and an adverb such as often or regularly to indicate that something didn t happen often in the past and therefore was not habitual The negative form of used to is often used when something was not habitual in the past but is habitual now He didn t use...

It was only 10 days ago that the accident happened It is only 10 days since the accident happened When the sentence has two clauses like this and is viewed from the present time ago is preceded by the simple past tense was and since by the present or present perfect tense is has been In addition...

Voltaire101 wrote I can differe make the difference between the present continuous tense and the simple present tense The difference is The simple present tense is used for a repeated or habitual action that happens always or often or usually In these cases you ll have an adverb or a complement...

GoodmanWhy did you twist my message every time When and where did I say such a thing like just and already are uncommon in BrE I said to Daxiao not to you that the use of such adverbs with the simple past tense is one of the features of AmE ENGLISH TENSEThe present perfect is used with already...