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Your final question is easy - "yes."There's another good thread on this, but I can't seem to find it. Something about being left to the mercy of the hurricane. It seems like there were two senses, one in which a deliberate choice is made to abandon someone to fate, and the...

#1 John who took my pen is here. #2 John who is wearing my jacket is here. How firm a grasp would you like to obtain? (I know I shouldn't have written that, but I couldn't resist.) The thing that works for me is to take out the the subject and the "verb" and see if it still...

1. "women" - use plural to match "the elderly" & "are more LIKELY" 2. The goals of our program ARE - use plural verb with plural subject 3. MANY benefits - "Much" is for stuff; "many" is for things you can count. 4. there IS a lot of space (missing verb in clause) ...

Here, they are all good sentences and lead essentially to the same result:1. The shop closed down. (finished past action-- closed is the simple past tense of the verb close) 2. The shop is closed down. (present condition-- closed is the past participle used as a predicate adjective) 3. The shop...

Jackson6612 wrote: Hi G.G. 1: What do you mean by ''I'm assuming you mean immediately after...''? In answering your question, I made the assumption that you wanted to know about adjectives that came immedately after the nouns they modify, not predicate adjectives. In "He is happy" happy is...

I chose my wording carefully to avoid both present perfect and past tenses, Amintnt.You are finished-- finished is a predicate adjective.(The performance was not a finished production -- finished is an attributive adjective.)

Yoong Liat, You can't say I saw him ran..., because ran is Past tense => Finite form=>Predicate. A predicate always requires a subject. In your sentence, the only subject is I and its predicate is saw. Run is a verbal (Infinitive). You can try other verbals in its place: I saw him run...

I can't see why it should be otherwise, Batmori. What is important is that all the finite forms (the first verbs of the predicates) in the sentence are Past tense. Now, change the tense of all the finite forms for Present and you will understand why 'kept' is Indefinite rather than Perfect. Slava

what seemed a natural choice is the subject. It is incorrect to separate the subject from the predicate with a comma. Secondly, seemed is past tense, and becomes is present. This is jarring to some, but not incorrect. With no implication that these are the only correct phrasings, I would...

"I like to read adventure stories" is the correct choice. "adventurous" applies to people, not to abstract nouns like "story". My brother is very adventurous. OK This novel is very adventurous. Not OK. ___________________ "Have you found out where you were born?" is correct. The question...