Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

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 problem you are having is that the felt goes with she and the convicted goes with her son , and so you can not say She felt convicted by the media... As a result you have to put her son into a subordinate something (clause, whatever) to keep

Mr. Torres-Rivero: As the other ladies and gentlemen have suggested, No. 1 is the usual construction. Nevertheless, your No. 2 may be almost correct, too. I found this example in Professor Quirk's A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH

I understand that this sentence is difficult, possibly even tortured. Were I to publish it, I would probably rewrite it to something like: " played on rock radio. I believe rock radio would not have played it if the song had been performed

Hi, Can someone tell me are these constructions OK He told me that he lived in France. ( Though the tense is present, he lives in france) 'He lived' is past tense, not present tense. The words in your sentence do not tell us

'have had' is the present perfect construction which, in this case, expresses result. Therefore, we call it the resultative present perfect tense – the result being that employees are left with positive feelings, or a positive working

Dear teachers, In the following sentence, I think the third conditional is used. If I would have known about the team tryouts, I would have signed up for them. Why, then, the "would have" construction is used in the

Hello, I've recently developed a habit of wondering (often to the point of frustration) how and when best to combine the simple past and simple present tenses in a logical manner. I've looked at a number of guidelines establishing when to

From the book, I learned that there are 5 If ... Then patterns. 1. If present, then present 2. If present, then can/may 3. If present, then future 4. If hypothetical subjunctive, then conditional If pete ATE pizza tomorrow, THEN he WOULD