Hello, I've recently developed a habit of wondering (often to the point of frustration) how and when best to combine the simple past and simple present tenses in a logical manner. I've looked at a number of guidelines establishing when to

I'd say sentence 11 is by far the most difficult of these. Nevertheless, the only thing you need to do is find the subject, verb and object in the active sentence, and then use the object as the subject in the passive sentence. Who made these

I would not subsitute the indicative for the subjunctive on these. You can end up with different meanings. Rob insists that Julia is here. = Rob is insistent in his claim that Julia is here. = Rob believes that Julia is truly here, and he insists

Hi, YSchneider . I am not a native speaker and this is indeed a tough grammar point for non-native speakers. Here is an extract from CGEL*: Did you lock the front door? in a domestic situation where it is known that the front door is locked at

>To me, 'is likely' denotes present time No, it looks into the future, as any forecast would, and this is one. Simple present or even present perfect are used in constructions which refer to the future. Tense and time are not the same.

Hi all, Here is my observations: Ant222 said: Using Present Perfect here is as incorrect as in «What have you been doing yesterday?» My comment: “Yesterday” is a direct time reference constructed into the same sentence in

I think it is more an observation than a rule, Hanuman, but simple present tense is used to denote future meanings in dependent conditional and temporal clauses (clauses introduced by when, if, unless, etc) instead of the will construction. It

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that