By Simple past, Nouns

Hahah, you two make me laugh with these posts.Yoong, all your emoticons and hyper-links work fine for me. I can click on your links and it brings up the post, just like it's supposed to. About contractions: It depends upon what kind of contraction. Personal pronoun contractions can be used...

Hi Goodman, Well, I understood that in fact there isn't an exact grammatic explanation why we use "It's" with plural nouns, isn't it? Is it the same as to ask for example, why the simple past and past perfect of the verb to cut is : cut - cut. Am I wrong? So, when...

Hi, But just to make sure, because it still sounds weird to my ear, but if you say it's the right way to do it I will beleive you, considering it's a previous work experience I should write : Tasks: Programmed data acquisition applications and numerical simulations for the ISAC 2 (isotope...

Hoa Thai wrote: Belly wrote: Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the...

Belly wrote:Ok I understood that drinking implies a continuous activity, but it may violate with the parallelsim, may not it? Not really! This sentence contains the vilolation: "He sat at the terrace and was drinking coffee." One clause uses the simple past tense and the other uses the past...

Sorry Cali for using the wrong pronoun. Thanks Grammar. So my discourse grammar thing was not quite right and both simple past and past perfect can be used depending on whether we know when or whether it was pretty recent or relevant. It's all about how we percieve the distance and relevance...

Hi, When we use the word "registration" which seems an uncountable noun, do we use as "registration" or "registrations"? Registration starts at 8 a.m. For late registrations, please go to Booth 5. The word 'registration' can refer to the overall activity of registration (uncountable), or to...

Grammar Geek wrote:I still think you can use "have been looking for"I don't know whether that is acceptable according to prescriptive grammar but it certainly sounds ok to my ear. New2grammar wrote:Is it right to say: "I think I've found what i've wanted all along" Thanks!You need to...

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...