In Prepositions^x, Present tenses^x

Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

Welcome to English Forums.It's an imperative sentence, the subject being (you) understood."Give" is a verb, present tense, second person singular or plural, the simple predicate of the sentence."yearbook" is a noun, the direct object of the verb."whoever" is a...

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

In the first sentence the use of a present tense (think) emphasises what your opinion is now. The past tense (thought) refers to the past; your opinion may have changed by now."I told her that I am (was?) happy in my job" Both are right. The sequence of tenses would require was but if...

Hi Cute572 1. Sitting at my writing desk and working on my assignment, I become captivated by the soft evening rays, pouring in through the side window and gently covering my sheet in their yellow and orange shades. "Become" is fine (if you've decided that you want to write the...

Yes. I think I understand what you are getting at -- although for non-native speakers some of the guidelines may appear to be circular in nature. According to Palmer (The English Verb), besides the plain vanilla 'passive' with an agent introduced by by (The man was killed by his...

It's correct. What is used in questions at the beginning of a clause. Are must be before the subject (you) in a question. The continuous present tense is often used to denote future action. No preposition is used before this when this refers to time.CB

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...

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

Believer wrote: Thank you, Clive. I was looking at Abdessalami On Line on its help on The Passive Voice and have some questions on its example sentence: For its Present tense example, it gave this example sentence in the active voice: The police arrest five people every night; and it gave...