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Welcome to English Forums.It's an imperative sentence, the subject being (you) understood."Give" is a verb, present tense, second person singular or plural, the simple predicate of the sentence."yearbook" is a noun, the direct object of the verb."whoever" is a...

Hi Cute572 1. Sitting at my writing desk and working on my assignment, I become captivated by the soft evening rays, pouring in through the side window and gently covering my sheet in their yellow and orange shades. "Become" is fine (if you've decided that you want to write the...

Yes. I think I understand what you are getting at -- although for non-native speakers some of the guidelines may appear to be circular in nature. According to Palmer (The English Verb), besides the plain vanilla 'passive' with an agent introduced by by (The man was killed by his...

i. Our basketball team tried hard but was defeated in the long run. Nobody could say anything. "All that can be done has been done," said the coach.can I change it to "had been done"? As I think it is a past event.-- No. It is not a past event. Be carefula bout can and has done. It is completely...

Yankee wrote: Jackson6612 wrote: Question 2: Both Philip and Yankee said: I am used to playing cricket in my spare time. I was told that after to simple Present Tense form is used but playing is not simple Present Tense form of play. What would you say on this? Most of the time you will...

Hi Archi, 1 & 2: Remember that when you have a form of the verb "to do" as you do wiht "Where did I..." then you use the bare infinitive of the verb, so "to leave" is just "leave." Do you want to leave? Where did she leave off? etc. 3. It says is present tense, It said is past tense. No,...

Hi Manicku 1) Other than the fact that one is the simple present tense and the other is present continuous tense, the main difference to me is that "I'm looking forward to" sounds a little friendlier and "I look forward to" sounds a little more formal. 2) The phrasal verb "look...

Aah, Maverick - a true student! Well done. 'your' is a determiner, and indicates something belonging or relating to the person or group of people being spoken or written to: e.g. your age your pen your book it's not your fault etc. you is a pronoun, used to refer to the person or people being...

Hello again, kynguyen You said: "In fact I think most of the verbs can be used with or without "to", right? For ex: I need to have a vacation. Or I need a vacation." You used the verb "need" as an exampe of the verbs that can be used with or without the particle "to". But the particle "to",...

"Speaking of her, ...." (Is 'to speak' used as a gerund here? Or, it's just a phrase??) The giveaway word here is "of". That's a preposition. You don't get two prepositions in a row - at least, not usually - so "speaking" must be a verb. It's not even a gerund, so far as I can tell. It's a...