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I see. So I should say that these sentences are all in the present simple with the verb "to be". Right?

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...

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...

Amy: «Ant, I think you need to reread GG's post. After "I thought," do NOT use the simple present tense.» I have read this commandment (sic!) about a million times in about a hundread threads, and all that in the past two or three days. In my previous post I didn't call it...

Not really.The second sentence indicates a time in the future, perhaps very soon.The first sentence is a bit odd, because the use of the simple present tense already implies "as usual". This could be used, of course, in casual conversation.English is notorious for interchanging tenses,...

Anonymous wrote:Hi everybody,I have a question about the Negative Form of "Simple Present Tense", please help me.Can I use "I don't read the book right now" to express the meaning of "I'm not reading the book right now"?Thanks a lot in advance. *********** Hi Here is a summary about the...

New2grammar wrote: I know that this forum have discussed the topic on 'will' many times. Though generally I know that it can be used to indicate future, habitual and conditional events, in some sentences I'm still unsure whether to use 'will' or the simple present tense. For example, Every...

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'.