By Present perfect, Jokes

Hi, 1. Please tell me why it has to be in the present tense. Please look at 'says' at the Final Line. A Joke in "Think English", the name of a supplementary paper/insert that came with the Saturday, April 19, 2008 issue of JoongAng Daily/Herald International Tribune: The name...

I'm not clear what you are asking here.As for your grammar questions, as always, I leave them to the grammar experts.

1. to steal the showa) Jack Nicholson stole the show in Batman. (question: is it possible to use this idiom as far as idioms are concerned? question2: would it be better to use here the pres. perfect?) I think this is fine, though when talking about movies (especially describing action), we...

Hey there! Thanks for looking at my post.I've been learning some new idioms recently, and here are my questions concerning them, and some sentences with them. Could you correct me, and answer my questions? 1. to steal the showa) Jack Nicholson stole the show in Batman. (question: is it...

«Um.....I think the "helper" needs more help than the poster requeting for help. Many simple errors....» Ok. If I corrected some of the poster's mistakes and introduced several new ones, why not look at my corrections and omit the mistakes! Anyway, I warned Jacek about that... By the...

Ok I had a look at these sentences and altered a few things, so here they are again... Voila:The text in red are those 'updated' sentences and the text in dark green are my comments.1. We certainly cannot accuse Fred of being shy. Look how he enjoys talking about himself in front of television...

Hello Jeff, 'Stalking' was originally a hunter's word. To stalk an animal, you very quietly and carefully follow it and try to get close enough to kill it. My cat in Australia was a very good stalker. Another - newer - use of the word is to describe a person who 'stalks' someone else (eg. a...

As a teacher, my students have difficulty with tenses which don't exist in their language - for example, present perfect. Learning vocab is always a matter of memorising unfortunately, and jokes and colloquialisms are also very difficult. I sometimes feel like a really bad stand-up comedienne...