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 following is a line from a documentary film: "The Rockerafella fortune had begun over a hundred years earlier with Nelson's grandfather, John D Rockafella, the founder of the Standard Oil Corporation." I'm confused about the

I would like someone to confirm my thoughts on the following sentence, to see if I am on the right track or am just in fantasy lala land, going off on a tangent: "Because Malcolm had never become a cutthroat CEO, he had few enemies." I

Hi, could you pls let me know whether this sentence is correct grammatically or not? *if i haven't received any reply till today, i will return the shpt to the customs.* in advance thank you for your help No, it's not

Hello. re•peated adj. happening , said or done many times. Oxford Dictionary. I can't understand why it is said happening and not happened (like said and done ). Good question. This is a very restricted definition "adj.

It's present tense like, "She takes walks in the park." It's sort of an habitual practice. It happens to be the GSMA's business to regularly estimate this sort of thing. If you used past tense, it would mean they only

I'm writing a college essay in which the sentence "After graduating from (college), he had taken the business world by storm." The context it is used in is within a eulogy. My question is whether the past perfect tense can be used

Mrs Hay___________(drive) along a small country road when she ___________(see) a man at the side of the road. He ___________(wave) and pointing at his car. Mrs Hay ______________(stop) and _________(ask) the man if he was all right. 'My

This is my version of the text: We used (1) to have great family holidays when I was younger. There was always something (2) interesting to do, such as going to the beach, playing football or going on rides at the fair. In the evenings we went to

These are the tenses I had to choose between; Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, Future with 'Going To', Future Simple,