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This paragraph is part of a compare/contrast essay. I am comparing one character from Animal Farm and one from either Julius Caesar or Lord of the Flies. The two I chose are Napoleon and Jack. Some guidelines I have to follow are: Only a max of 2 "to be" verbs per paragraph and use...

Velimir:Sorry I did not understand your question. Here are some comments on the verb tenses in your sentences1a) Whenever you've sent us your goods, we have received your documents related to the delivery when the truck has already set off . you've sent: You have sent is present...

Thanks. That phrase link you gave me was helpful. I didn't realise that the type of phrase is based on the head of the phrase- that's easy.Here is my query to my original, you answered saying, 'And also, when you said, 'a participial clause is a "non-finite" clause, that...

Not exactly. It's still a verb in the sense of being a verb form, but it's not a "finite" verb unless it has the auxiliary. CJ

I work for an online editing and proofreading service. See my profile for more info. I won't do your whole story here, but I will show you how I would revise the first paragraph. The dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed: I have never been good with death. I don't like when people...

And also, when you said, 'a participial clause is a "non-finite" clause, that is, it does not use an inflected form of the verb which marks tense' do you mean that bringing shows no tense?I thought it was present tense? Or is the ing form only present tense if it has an auxilary...

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat “is noun phrase (a is determiner...

This paragraph is part of a compare/contrast essay. I am comparing one character from Animal Farm and one from either Julius Caesar or Lord of the Flies. The two I chose are Napoleon and Jack. Some guidelines I have to follow are: Only a max of 2 "to be" verbs per paragraph and use...

Hello again, Again I have a question of course . I am interested in the difference in the usage of the mandative subjunctive and the simple present tense  in dependent "that" clauses after the verbs of demand as "insist" , "demand" ,"suggest" and...

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