. 1. (My husband Mark and I both do volunteer work) but (Ryan was only six years old) -- two independant clauses conected by the conj. but? -- Well, yes... BUT sample sentences should make some sense, Fernanda! There is no evident relationship

And universal falsehood. What a phrase! This is important because we are not talking about something that is always true. As a result, we can only use the past tense in sentences starting with "I thought it was". The "was" is

Cool Breeze wrote: Kooyeen wrote: That leads me to think that "It's no use to do something" is probably not idiomatic for most native speakers and therefore it's better to avoid it. What do you think? Hi Kooyeen You are active as usual.

I saw the following third conditional sample sentences from an educational webpage: 1. If I had not gone to university in Spain, I would not be bilingual. 2. If you had attended the training seminar, you would be familiar with the new

Cool Breeze wrote: Belly wrote: I think there is a mistake here. But anyway, how could although and though can go with a gerund? Expecting is not a gerund. It's a present partciple and though + a present participle is used as an active

Anicas wrote: Is this correct/possible? Unless Susannah had fought for her dream, she wouldn't have had the chance to study for an engineering degree. Thanks It seems that "unless" doesn't match past participles well in your sample, but it

Inchoateknowledge wrote: "I don't understand the function of the underlined that in this sentence and what 'that' refers to? Can you give examples to explain this?" This is the question, right? Inchoateknowledge wrote: Note from

Inchoateknowledge wrote: I recommend that we settle this problem (simple sentence, one clause) the red part is a nominal clause, and acts as the object of the verb. 'that' has no reference, but plays an important role grammatically:

CalifJim wrote: A word used to introduce a clause complement of a verb is called a complementizer. Complements are underlined below. I said the word . I said that Jane would be late today . CJ Thanks for the explantion, CJ, but my confusion

Well thats how I interpret the problem. 1. In this sentence, the problem is with the pronoun that is used for the calendar stick. They have used them which actually points to North Americans ratehr than the stick. Option A, B and C has this