Hi Anon Part of your difficulty might be due to the fact that you have some typos/errors in your sentences. I'm at your dad ' s house. Are you Brittany's brother. You add an apostrophe and an S ( 's ) to the end of a noun to

That's = that is and that was? No. Never was . There are no contractions with the past tense of to be ( was, were ). Since thought is past tense shouldn't it be that was No. It should not be That was . That still remains, even now, what I

When Eleanor lost both of her parents, she moved in with her grandmother , Mary Hall . Students at Eleanor’s school thought that she was weird, and because of this she rarely had friends over , especially boys. Grandmother Hall was often mean to

Hi denna. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to English Forums! My only suggestion is that we would say, " It was most considerate of you." Note the past tense, " It was ." " It is (or the contraction, " It's ) most

. Hi. Please tell me if the part underlined can be in a past perfect tense as it seems to me that the event happened before his or her having been embarrassed. -- No, it was an ongoing phenomenon. How in the world do you think your 'past

Hi. Please tell me if the part underlined can be in a past perfect tense as it seems to me that the event happened before his or her having been embarrassed. Sorry, did I correctly put the possessive phrase ( I don't know it's the right

<< the end of the virtuous life of Abigail will be grave. >> Please educate me about noun phrases. I'm still trying, but I'm slow to catch on. I never heard of them until I joined EF. Any group of words beginning with a noun is

Dear BBG - Please try to be careful when you write. If you don't think carefully about every word you write, you will not learn why you make mistakes. Think about tenses - present, past, future. Think about plurals - is this one, or more than

Panesh: Sunrise (one word) is a noun.In your sentence, the word "rise" is a verb, not a noun. Every sentence must have a verb. English used to be a highly inflected language. Over the centuries, the inflections have been changed or

I think you've understood it. Its is always possessive. It's is always short for either it is or it has. 1. She enjoyed the movie and told me it is scenery reminded her of her hometown. Not make sense. You are right 'it is/it's