Sorry to butt in like this. I'm sure Clive will give his expert advice but let me try to explain it the way I see it (from a non native speaker's point of view). Regarding the New York sentence, since both the living/working

Thank you Clive for the critique. For the New York sentence, is there anything wrong or misleading in the construction that needs to be reworded. After the rewording, the original past perfect context has been erased. Maybe I tried too hard to

I can't give you an explanation as to why, but the non-inflected form just sounds wrong in the first sentence. Can someone help? I guess it's because of the verb "to see" used in the simple present. I agree. An action can never

I profess that I am a thief. Okay, but "confess" would be more common. To acknowledge I profess like a father. My American Heritage gives this meaning (intransitive), but I've never heard it. There are common religious meanings,

Could you tell me which setence is more fitted for this article? Just an aside on your subject title: This is a crazy case of adjectives derived from participles. The adjective complement "fitted" doesn't exactly fit this

From Oxford it says: He has committed himself to support his brother's children. (Verb) But no examples provided for adjective usage. To the last question, I learned long ago that it's incorrect to use bare infinitve after

I love this! The second sentence is in passive voice, which is only possible with a transitive verb. The direct object of the verb in the passive voice is actually the subject, "our understanding." The actor is often not mentioned.

Hi all, I have some confusion about have got and got, mainly the second one. I often hear people say, and actually I used to say this because I see this usage too often: 1)Hey man, I got three top-end identical computers in my home now,

I request you to please explain it. Is the past perfect usage grammatically wrong? If not, whats the difference in meaning between the past perfect and the simple past as used here?

. They are 'correct', but the usage is rare. Most grammarians would correct to the simple past, since they all refer to past events. .