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ETJW-CMD wrote: Dear Goodman, I am one of Hoa’s friends, a member of a friendly yet private English-To-Join-the-World Club that we co-founded here in Vietnam. Last night, she showed me this thread and asked for my opinion. My first reaction was that the present perfect and past tense...

Solomon_13000 wrote:Are the sentences using the underlined word (pronoun and so on) as shown below correct? Interrogative pronoun/relative pronoun The lady whom you saw just now is my teacher. I consulted a doctor whom I met in Paris I am not sure whom did he invited for the wedding ...

<This form is considered bad English.> By whom? I'm told that is accepted as standard. <It's interesting to note that the artificial language Ido at first did not have perfect tenses they were introduced by popular demand.> Yes, interesting. The thing is, the AE use of the...

Hello Sextus Here you go: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or whether I...

Hello Pedanticus. Here are some doubts: 1) “The past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable number of books and papers on the influence that ancient scepticism (broadly defined) . I don’t understand whether by adding “an” before “assimilation”, the sentence is correct, or...