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? which is wrong. Although it is ambiguous, there is an interpretation which is grammatically correct, so the sentence is acceptable. (Nevertheless, I think it is preferable to rephrase it because of the ambiguity, and I showed you how to do that above with the phrase last night's...

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours2) I needn't have brought that milkI = subjectneed have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle.not - adverb that - demonstrative pronoun refering to...

.I suppose that you want your sentences PARSED. I'm not going to do all of them for you. I'll do the first one:Where -- adverbare -- linking verb, simple presentyou -- pronoun subjectI -- pronoun subject've been waiting -- verb, present perfect progressivefor -- preposition2 --...

HiYour sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ...""the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they...

I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has died",...

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...

Hi, Sorry, I’ve got one of those horrible grammar terminology questions to ask you. In the following sentence, I’m supposed to decide whether the underlined part is a noun phrase or a clause:With two white grandfathers, and having been brought up as a Methodist in a Roman Catholic community,...

Hello! Sorry, I’ve got one of those horrible grammar terminology questions to ask you. In the following sentence, I’m supposed to decide whether the underlined part is a noun phrase or a clause: With two white grandfathers, and having been brought up as a Methodist in a Roman Catholic...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Verb All the furniture is my father’s study room are is made of oak. They are responsible for handling the money Those are spoiled apples Matt forgot that he had invited some friends to dinner yesterday. OK I had invited all the neighbors for my birthday party...

Sorry Cali for using the wrong pronoun. Thanks Grammar. So my discourse grammar thing was not quite right and both simple past and past perfect can be used depending on whether we know when or whether it was pretty recent or relevant. It's all about how we percieve the distance and relevance...