In Present tenses^x, Present simple^x, Past simple^x

I came across the following explanation:The Present Simple is used to give life and colour to the telling of a story. The Past Simple does not have the same dramatic effect. That is why jokes are often told in the present.

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...

Hello everyone! I need your help. One of my books contains the following examples of the reported speech:1) "Why is the world round?"asked the little girl.The little girl wanted to know why the world was round.2) "Smoking is bad for you", the teacher told us.The teacher...

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...

Hi, CliveIt's high time you learnt Polish. But seriously, my English isn't very good so it was easier for me to write it in Polish.Generally it can be said that:If you give the date you use Past SimpleIf things happened in the past but you don't know exactly when or it doesn't make any difference...

Could you guys tell me were my mistakes are in this, I think I got it. Thanks for all the help PRESENT CONDITIONAL (sometimes called the ZERO CONDITIONAL) IF + PRESENT / PRESENT E.g. If you mix yellow and blue, you get green. 1st CONDITIONAL IF + PRESENT / FUTURE E.g. If...