Hi, I'd change these: 5. The sun was eclipsed by the moon. ACTIVE PASSIVE 9. This bone has been buried by the dog . PASSIVE 10. It takes a long time to think of these examples . PASSIVE ACTIVE 13. There was a cup of coffee on the table but now

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

Mr. Torres-Rivero: As the other ladies and gentlemen have suggested, No. 1 is the usual construction. Nevertheless, your No. 2 may be almost correct, too. I found this example in Professor Quirk's A COMPREHENSIVE GRAMMAR OF THE ENGLISH

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

The participle form (present, past) can be used as an adjective which modifies a noun. The present participle describes a noun that is involved in an activity at the same relative time as the main verb in the sentence. Scratching his fleas, the

Any of the three tenses you suggest as possible can be used. However, this is the perfect situation for you to use "used to". Until two years ago I used to think mostly about clothes and makeup, and I people by their appearance and

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 agree with all the responses to your question. I think the answer, in this specific case, should be simple past, for the reasons others have stated. But you introduced another related issue as an example, and that is: I have eaten. I just ate.

Hi there. Welcome to EF. Hello, everyone: I don't understand the following paragraph, cited from a grammar book, could you help me please? "there is an idiomatic exception to the rule that the simple past tense indicates definite meaning:

Hello, everyone: I don't understand the following paragraph, cited from a grammar book, could you help me please? "there is an idiomatic exception to the rule that the simple past tense indicates definite meaning: this is the construction