In Predicates^x, Verbs^x, Past tenses^x

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 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

Hello, Jack and Johnno "I have never seen him drive the car before." Johnoo said the tense used in this sentence is the present perfect of "see" (have seen), which is true. That is the main verb of the sentence. Now, "drive" has a different subject (him); as Johnno said, it is an infinitive...