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These are two different grammatical patterns with two different meanings.1. be used to ---ing means be accustomed to -ing.I am used to working hard talks about your ablity to work hard because you have worked hard so often before. It suggests that you are comfortable in a situation where you...

Hello Armsys,Maybe the following extract from answer.com would help explain the usage of 'yet':"YETadv. At this time; for the present: isn't ready yet. Up to a specified time; thus far: The end had not yet come. At a future time; eventually: may yet change his mind. Besides; in addition: returned...

Yankee wrote:Hi GoodmanYou can look at "to welcome someone with open arms" as an idiom. This idiom contains the verb 'welcome'. Simple past tense, active voice: They welcomed him with open arms.Simple past tense, passive voive: He was welcomed with open arms (by them). 'Welcomed' is a past...

Hi GoodmanYou can look at "to welcome someone with open arms" as an idiom. This idiom contains the verb 'welcome'. Simple past tense, active voice: They welcomed him with open arms.Simple past tense, passive voive: He was welcomed with open arms (by them). 'Welcomed' is a past participle...

Aperisic wrote:Isn’t it time that this program is going to squander far beyond our expectations? Is this program going to spend a lot of time to start and execute because it is so slow? OK, I've found another version which is closer to your formulation: Isn’t it time, what this program...

Aperisic wrote:Isn’t it time that this program is going to squander far beyond our expectations? Is this program going to spend a lot of time to start and execute because it is so slow? The latter sentence I understand and it's clear, but the two are definitely not equivalent, and the one in...

kept watch is the simple past tense of keep watch, which is an idiom. It means to be on guard. So while Dorothy and Toto slept, the scarecrow remained awake and alert in case someone approached them wanting to do something bad to them.

That's correct, Abbie. The past participles are 'gotten' and 'forgotten' in AmE. Nevertheless, the idiom "have got" to mean simply "have" takes "got", not "gotten". I have (got) a computer on my desk just now. I am using it to respond to this question. I have gotten/bought a computer this...

Hello Starlet Unfortunately it's not always possible to map Italian tenses directly to English ones, but here's a rough guide. It's probably easiest to take each tense separately in each language: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Passato...

Hi Jim, no, I'm not asking you to do my homework. Yes, I have some tasks to work on and I got some questions about it. Because in my group we got some different answers for these sentences, then, how I trust the answers that I get from this forum I decided to check it. In sentences 1 and 2 I...