If you are too busy, you can just give me a few suggestions or correct a few of the most problematic sentences for me. In my opinion, satisfying things means somethings make oneself satisfy. But there is other word satisfactory means the same.

No, "lead up to" means they come before something in time. "Leads to" is more directional: This path leads to the house, or All roads lead to Rome. Note that "lead up to" is simple present and indicates habitual

Well, Velimir, some (native) speakers are very sloppy (or forgot their grammar lessons) and use the present tense instead of the correct subjunctive mood.. In formal writing, the authors are usually more careful to use the subjunctive. I have the

hi: I have a question about English tense. could you explain the use of tense in the following paragraph? (bold italic added) "In the 16th c. there are some traces of a perception that the word might have an extended application to other

A Myriad of Grammar Problems... :( I have absolutely no idea how to do these, can someone tell me what's going on here, Ive looked up many pages on the web but still am stumped on these: Exercise 9 Rewrite the following in the PASSIVE voice.

As your grammar book says, these verbs can be used in simple present. "Bill told me you were (or "are", because it's still presumably true before the move) moving to Sydney" is also possible in the fist example.By the way

Hi, You wrote: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in

Hi there: I learn from a grammar book that a small set of verbs of communication such as "tell", "say" and "hear" can be used in simple present tense even though the act of telling, saying or hearing happened in the

Hi again, To sum up, you need to study and understand the Simple Present tense, focusing on the first/second/third person aspects. If your grammar book does not discuss this, then find another grammar book that does. Good luck, Clive

Hi, Where your grammar book describes Simple Present , does it discuss first person, second person, third person ? In other words, does it talk about I/we/you/he/she/it/they? Clive