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Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...

Hi, I am having trouble getting a firm grasp of the working of putting present-time clauses in a story or narratve that flows in past tenses -- which meant to tell something that has occurred in the past. I know if something still holds true or if something is a "universal" truth...

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...

Hi, Your spelling of "distinction is wrong". I believe that statistics are expressed in the present tense. So the correct sentence, according to me, should be: Nine out of ten students who attend this university graduate with distinction.

Nine out of ten students who attended this university graduated with distiction. If used as a fact (for example, some stastistic to prospective students during a college tour or a news headline), I'd say it in the present tense as follows: Nine out of ten students who attends this university...

Hi MIAIf live is in the continuous present tense, it usually conveys the idea that a person lives somewhere temporarily:He is living in Melbourne now.- He may be in Melbourne because his work has taken him there for a year or two, or he may be a student at a local university.He lives in...

Let's spread out the issue a little bit: ____ O ____ Type 2. Basic forms. a. If we caught the 10 o'clock train, we would (could, might, etc.) get there by lunch-time. b. If I came into a fortune, I would give up smoking. c. If I knew how it worked, I could tell...

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...

Hi. I'm neither a native speaker, nor a teacher, but I'll respond anyway. I hope you don't mind.There have been good posts already, so I'll just say a few things:1. I'd say your teacher is trying to improve your style, not your grammar. I hope she agrees.2. "gives" vs. "is giving". You say...

This is a link to a writing site at Purdue University (Indiana, US). I think a "declarative" sentence is just another name for an "assertive" sentence, a statement of fact. "He dares to speak up in class..." seems like an assertive/declarative sentence to me. "He dare speak up in class..."...