By Present simple, Auxiliaries

First conditional: When you're gone, I'll miss you. Not correct. Try "If you (are to) go, I’ll miss you."Zero conditional: When you're gone, I miss you. OK Is ARE present simple in both phrases? It is. See bracketed version. Because in the first conditional, it's strange to think...

Specter wrote:Hello teachers, The sentence pattern of the following bothers me: 1) I am bored. I was taught that this is an S+LV+SC pattern where 'bored' functions as an adjective and denotes condition. It is the past participle of the verb teach bore. The main verb is am, right? Yes 2) I...

Hello teachers, The sentence pattern of the following bothers me: 1) I am bored. I was taught that this is an S+LV+SC pattern where 'bored' functions as an adjective and denotes condition. It is the past participle of the verb teach. The main verb is am, right? 2) I am bored by the movie....

Mister Micawber wrote:Future Simple (I will sit)Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)Future Perfect (I will have sat")Present Simple (I sit)Past Simple (I sat)Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)Past Perfect (I had sat)Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

1. You must be pretty dumb if you get a bad mark. This is fine. It’s the first conditional: modal auxiliary verb + if + present simple 2. You must be pretty dumb if you got a bad mark. This would work as the second conditional if you replaced ‘must’ with ‘would’. In such a case, the...

Jack112 wrote: Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you give me a few more examples as to how to distinguish between them? 1. I have never had more girlfriends than I have now. (Correct) 2. I have never had more girlfriends than I do now. (Is this one correct as well? How do I...

Hello all. I agree that "visitors are asked to sign the guest book" or something along those lines is correct. "Asked", in the example sentence, is a past participle -not an adjective or a past tense- and it is the lexical verb of the sentence (the one that carries the meaning). "Are" is the...

hi... i've read this tip from the englishforums.com ....hope it helps the passive is be (is,was,have been) + past participle We can form the passive in any tense. In fact, conjugation of verbs in the passive tense is rather easy, as the main verb is always in past participle form and the...

Hello meg2589 and all, I almost exclusively teach Spanish students, with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story. I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we, Spanish people, find when studying English. The first problem...

1. What happened to you? 2. What did happen to you? The difference between is the inclusion of the auxiliary verb "do". This is added to secure emphasis, and is called the intensive form. Example: A: What happened to your face? Did you get into a fight? B: No. A: Then what did happen? Here's...