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Well, Velimir, some (native) speakers are very sloppy (or forgot their grammar lessons) and use the present tense instead of the correct subjunctive mood.. In formal writing, the authors are usually more careful to use the subjunctive. I have the feeling that subjenctive mood may eventually go...

hi: I have a question about English tense. could you explain the use of tense in the following paragraph? (bold italic added) "In the 16th c. there are some traces of a perception that the word might have an extended application to other languages. But it was not before the 17 th c. that it...

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...

A Myriad of Grammar Problems... :(I have absolutely no idea how to do these, can someone tell me what's going on here, Ive looked up many pages on the web but still am stumped on these:Exercise 9 Rewrite the following in the PASSIVE voice. E.g. 1. My wife wrote the letter. --> The letter...

Yes absolutely right.Both Do/Does comes in Present Tense and Did in Past Tense.But the Example quoted is not as per the grammar.Do comes I,You, We and They.Does comes with He,She and it.Did in past tense.Coming to the business:Ex1: I didn't Knew it.In the above example yout intention was to...

Hi,You wrote: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in the past. for example, "Bill tells me you are...

Hi there: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in the past. for example, "Bill tells me you are...

Hi again, To sum up, you need to study and understand the Simple Present tense, focusing on the first/second/third person aspects. If your grammar book does not discuss this, then find another grammar book that does. Good luck, Clive

Hello Everybody,I was translating this sentence in my language and came across a grammar point that I wasn't sure about. So basically, I am talking about 2 people : A and B. A and B have different preferences for clothes. And the sentence was:"They are usually happy when at the moment...

Aristotle's Ethics Hi,Essays should not include a table of contents.I started off 'bolding' my edits, but then stopped doing that, so just read carefully please.I've just looked at the introduction, whch took me a while. Content 1. The significance of ethics for Aristotle. 2....