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mm.. So it is simple present okay for report writing?

Hi Active sentence: Somebody stole my bicycle. Passive sentence: My bicycle has been stolen. Is the passive sentence OK, in your opinion? I would write: My bicycle was (simple past) stolen. As far as I know if the active sentence is written in simple past than the passive one should also be...

Yesterday, I was joint in a interview in s-fone corp. It is difficult to pass this exam because it very hard. This exam include two parts : IQ part and English part. In IQ part , I did quite well , but English part I don’t understand any sentence . I am studying lines-lines Books,...

Tanit wrote: Hi, good question! I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence: He is one that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. After some...

Zj.frank wrote:Dear all: He is one of the few that knows the solution to the problem. or He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem. Do the two "that"s denote different things? Shall we say that the first "that" denotes "he" while the second "that" denotes "the few"? If...

First, let's make this present continuous, to show it's happening now. With simple present, it sounds like the lizard does this all the time as a habit. The lizard is crawling at the ceiling. No, "at" doesn't workThe lizard is crawling on the ceiling. Okay. He is on the ceiling now.The lizard is...

Interesting points. I'm an ESL teacher in TN and found your article by doing a search on using "the present tense to express routine." I've been thinking about doing more drills that tie together the present tenses, not just simple present, but emphatic (if that's what you call it), and...

Nona The Brit wrote: This sentence is an simple past and not an simple present. No articles. (but if you had needed an article it would have been 'a' not 'an', as simple begins with 's'). Thank you.

This sentence is an simple past and not an simple present. No articles. (but if you had needed an article it would have been 'a' not 'an', as simple begins with 's').

CalifJim wrote: I don't know of any special name for the expressions It's time and wish. CJ Well I did some work on the internet and got some useful links. You said that you don't know any specific name for the expression but I've found one. Please verify is it correct or not. It's called...