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Re: tense difference

Hi,Can any one confirm whether this I wrote is a correct mixed condition with present-time meaning and goes well with the present tense of the sentence it is preceding? Thank youI remember Sue, who transferred to another school just two months before this graduation date. Had she stayed in our...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 81 days ago Dates Tenses Present tenses
Re: tense checking

I should have edited the post - they are clearly related, but the first three seemed unrelated to each other.I broke them into each line so I could comment one by one. I think the probable date I noted for his visit is one month from the day of writingYou wrote, "If I sleep one more day, I...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Grammar Geek 84 days ago Dates Tenses Present tenses Colons Past tenses Semicolons
Re: tense checking

Thank you so much.How would you divide this type of writing (diary or reflection piece?) into paragraphs, especially when the content of a possible paragraph is two or thre sentences long?You asked: I am starting to work on my two-month project on today this afternoon;, and when my nephew gets...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 84 days ago Dates Tenses Present tenses Colons Present perfect Paragraphs Semicolons
Re: would

Thank you very much Grammar Geek,but to be frank ,I'm still confused aout the use of' Would' here.Can we use WILL instead of WOULD in #1 ?and why don't they use WILL in # 2?Similarly your sentence is " If the candidate has such proficiency, it would be preferable .Why not...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Tuongvan 115 days ago Grammar Verbs Dates Tenses Present tenses Modals
Re: Felt like...

Hi Mad, With this scant context, it could be taken either way. It's pretty confusing. "Friends" is plural. Was she paired with one particular guy? Whom is she talking to? Her date?? "Felt" is past tense, but "is" is present tense. Is she still on the date...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Avangi 170 days ago Verbs Nouns Adverbs Tenses Plurals Dates Present tenses Past tenses Whom
Re: I thought a spider is/was an insect

If you'll note the time of post, Jim and I posted a minute apart, clearly writing our posts at the same time. NO! "I thought..." REQUIRES past. Present tense is NOT possible! It doesn't have to turn out to be false.It can turn out that what you thought came true. A:...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Grammar Geek 193 days ago Dates Simple present Tenses Present tenses Past tenses
Re: Need help on correct sentences.

Hi LW, I am afraid the teacher’s comment was valid. When we use present tense, we are inferring something that regularly happens as a routine. i.e. The mailman usually delivers the mails around 11 o’clock everyday.I go to the grocery stores twice a week. We need a tense qualifier to validate...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 250 days ago Verbs Dates Tenses Present tenses
Sequence of tenses (#4)

Could anybody please help me understand why the following underlined parts are kept as a present tense, not a past tense? In my understanding, if they are followed by the rules of the "sequence of tenses," they should be a past tense, no?? Example 1: It would be unforgivable if this turns out...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Gori 321 days ago Dates Tenses Present tenses Past tenses

Yoong Liat wrote:Hi GoodmanYou wrote: I have been labeled and called by many descriptions, hinted being “Ignorant” is the first ... I'm not hinting that you're ignorant. I say that if a learner tells me "informal" means "wrong", I'll understand that he says so because he is ignorant. But you...

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Re: suitable tense

"is growing" is better than "has been growing"Sorry to spoil your party, but this is just a matter of opinion. I think "has been growing" is better, and I would definitely have chosen that. I'm not comfortable with the present tense there with "in modern times", i.e., "during the course...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 1 yr 254 days ago Dates Tenses Present tenses

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