By Prepositions, Past tenses

Re: I need your help,please.

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) ...

Re: I need clarification on this

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

Re: inclusion vs. separation (present perfect and simple past)

Hoa Thai wrote: Dear all, First, I would like to thank you in advance for reading this rather lengthy post of mine. I do need to lay out my thinking and reasoning as wide as I can so you can best help me to untangle my own confusion...

Re: verbs, nouns....-2

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentence below correct in terms of grammar (verbs, nouns and so on that are italic)? Adjective They say that Simon is the strongest man in the fitness club. He is the strongest man on earth That is the strongest building in the city Neither Joan nor Jamie...

Re: Past tense and Present tense in one sentence

Hi, Can I use these two tenses in the same sentence?For example, can I say:"I chose answer B at sentence 8 in my last English test but the correct answer is C" Sure. Forget this odd idea about tenses completely. Consider this, which is fine. Last year, I worked in Japan, right now I work in...

Past tense and Present tense in one sentence

Can I use these two tenses in the same sentence?For example, can I say:"I chose answer B at sentence 8 in my last English test but the correct answer is C"Please also check if I use the prepositions correctly.Thank you very much

Re: Using ''need'' as a modal

Jackson6612 wrote:Need sometimes behaves like a modal, for example 'She need know', 'She needn't know', or, in more formal English, 'She need not know'. Examples: 1: You needn't worry 2: Buying budget-priced furniture needn't mean compromising on quality or style... 3: Loneliness can be...

Part of Speech identification

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Re: incoming/oncoming

Thank you Amy for your replies but I'm afraid I've another follow up question for you. Sorry. "The car that was crashed into was neither a destination nor (was it) a planned target. Why all of a sudden, you changed the tense to the past tense. I know the sentence is still correct because it...

Re: Persoanl questionl #4a

Hi Archi, 1 & 2: Remember that when you have a form of the verb "to do" as you do wiht "Where did I..." then you use the bare infinitive of the verb, so "to leave" is just "leave." Do you want to leave? Where did she leave off? etc. 3. It says is present tense, It said is past tense. No,...