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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...

Hello teachers!I'm summarising a book which is about teaching methods.I guess there are millions of errors.Please check those to right one! Thanks in advance! 13. Teaching grammar There are two main ways teaching grammar. One way is both planning grammar teaching in advance and relying on...

Hi,First thing first, let's give the verb forms their correct names. was purchased >> past simple, passive had struggled >> past perfect is purchased >> present simple, passiveThe time sequence in your example sentence is something like this: 1. in the...

Greetings,I have a pretty big favour to ask.I've been struggling with this topic for quite awhile now.It goes without saying that my English "leaves something to be desired".Having in mind the subtle differences that occur from using particular tenses, I have often wondered how the...

Hi N2g, These are two completely different verbs The infinitives and the present simple are the same, but the rest is different. I hung up the phone, and hung a couple of pictures. The judge said they're going to hang me. I will be hanged first thing in the morning. I guess I should...

Hi Mr Liat,I said earlier that the presence of "myself" in "I lay myself in bed" makes the verb transitive. Hence, "lay" here is the present tense of lay (laid, laid) and NOT the past of lie (lay, lain) because the latter is intransitive and cannot take any direct...

Forum_mail wrote:so... what actually am I supposed to choose, when the book gives me two options and I have to pick just one of them, like in this one:"I spend/am spending more time with my girlfriend these days" - this is taken from a book... which one to choose?thanksI would choose 'I am...

Hi Musesun"This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden".Have you learned how to make...

If you only use 'expected', that is the simple past tense (active voice) of 'expect' and it refers to what the player himself thought.If you say 'is expected', that is the simple present tense in the passive voice and 'is expected' means that 'other people expect something'.

Hello again,Well, never is possible in different tenses. In present perferct -I've never seen anything like it. In past tense -I never talked to her. I present simple -I never smoke. future simple -I will never disappoint you.Bye