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Re: Techical Report Writing

Kaos — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:33:13 GMT

mm..

Article
The first Fast Retransmit in Figure 4 results from three
dup acks for packet 25. The second Fast Retransmit results
from three dup acks for packet 42, the last packet transmitted
before the first Fast Retransmit was initiated.

and then at the beginning of the second paragraph:

Article
Because the x-axis shows the time that packets appeared
on a link within the network..

So it is simple present okay for report writing?

active\passive

Newguest — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:57:59 GMT

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 written in simple past?

One more question. I never know whether I should write it with the definite article or not: present simple, simple present, present simple tense etc. Should I put the "the" before each of them or always omit it?

thanks

Re: I want to find some friend to talk and improve my english

Quangtrungvtv — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:09:23 GMT

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 donât understand any sentence .

I am studying lines-lines Books, intermediate level, fellow I want to write some sentence about this book.

UNIT 1 : MODERN LIFE .

Grammar in use :

1In this unit show past ten, simple present tense .

2. this part talk about a story of effect modern life . This is simple story but it practice use tense of English.

UNIT 2 .FORTUNE

Grammar :

Talking about the past :

Grammar in use :

look at the photographs and headline of the newspaper article .

Question one : where does story take place ?

Answer : story talk about fortune of life . It is talking about Chris Bod , a programmer . After sell his house , with 145,000 $ he had taken plan to Las Vegas . Chris sitting all day in Casino and finally he lost all his money . He comeback London and live in a small flat . sine , He âve given up gambling.

Rules : the articale contain four tenses for talking about the past .

underlines positive and negative examples of each these tense

. The simple past

The past continuous

The past perfect

The present perfect.

How do we form each tense find example regular and irregular verbs.

Re: One of the ... that ...

Zj.frank — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:37:23 GMT

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 [of the few] that knows the solution to the problem.
or
He is one of the few that know the solution to the problem.

After some research, I came across this:

"one of those who. Constructions such as one of those people who pose a different problem. Many people argue that who should be followed by a plural verb in these sentences, as in He is one of those people who just donât take ânoâ for an answer. Their thinking is that the relative pronoun who refers to the plural noun people, not to one. They would extend the rule to constructions with inanimate nouns, as in The sports car turned out to be one of the most successful products that were ever manufactured in this country.

But the use of the singular verb in these constructions is common, even among the best writers. In an earlier survey, 42 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the use of the singular verb in such constructions. Itâs really a matter of which word you feel is most appropriate as the antecedent of the relative pronounâ one or the plural noun in the of phrase that follows it. Note also that when the phrase containing one is introduced by the definite article, the verb in the relative clause must be singular: He is the only one of the students who has (not have) already taken Latin."

For what it's worth, heere are the Google search results for
"one of the few of that" and
"one of the few of who" in the BBC website only. If you consider only sentences in simple present , you will find both "have" and "has", "do" and "does" and so on.

Thanks, Tanit!

I was writing my previous reply while you posted this one.

The link you provided is really useful.

Re: One of the ... that ...

Tanit — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:18:48 GMT

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 so, do the two sentences have slightly different meanings?

It seems that the first sentence is more often used. Here is an example from <http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/films/int/1mm/gluttony/-/films/oneminutemovies/watch/snowball.shtml?gluttony.shtml>

This is the best film on here... and one of the few that bothers with any sense of narrative and character.

Surely there are a few films that bother with some sense of narrative and character. Is it to say that in such case, we usually use "that bothers" rather than "that bother"? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment!

Hi, good question!

I was wandering whether a slightly different point of view exists as for the subject of the sentence:
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.

After some research, I came across this:

"one of those who. Constructions such as one of those people who pose a different problem. Many people argue that who should be followed by a plural verb in these sentences, as in He is one of those people who just donât take ânoâ for an answer. Their thinking is that the relative pronoun who refers to the plural noun people, not to one. They would extend the rule to constructions with inanimate nouns, as in The sports car turned out to be one of the most successful products that were ever manufactured in this country.

But the use of the singular verb in these constructions is common, even among the best writers. In an earlier survey, 42 percent of the Usage Panel accepted the use of the singular verb in such constructions. Itâs really a matter of which word you feel is most appropriate as the antecedent of the relative pronounâ one or the plural noun in the of phrase that follows it. Note also that when the phrase containing one is introduced by the definite article, the verb in the relative clause must be singular: He is the only one of the students who has (not have) already taken Latin."

For what it's worth, heere are the Google search results for
"one of the few of that" and
"one of the few of who" in the BBC website only. If you consider only sentences in simple present , you will find both "have" and "has", "do" and "does" and so on.

EDITED: "wandering" is a typo for "wondering". My apologies.

Re: crawl

Grammar Geek — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:55:41 GMT

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 work
The lizard is crawling on the ceiling. Okay. He is on the ceiling now.
The lizard is crawling to the ceiling. Okay. He is on the wall now, making his way toward the ceiling
~~The lizard is crawling up the ceiling~~. No, the ceiling is horizontal. You can't crawl up it.
~~The lizard is crawling on ceiling.~~ No, you need the article.

Re: SIMPLE PRESENT EXPRESSES HABIT

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:01:23 GMT

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 progressive as well. In fact, I'm wondering if there's actually a tense called present emphatic. It is the verb phrase that includes the do or does, e.g., he does go. I know that when we translate Spanish verbs in the present one of the translations is called emphatic and it is the one with the helping do verb.

I notice that some textbooks actually give a wrong impression about using the present tense. I just saw one that says present tense expresses what is happening right now. I wanted to protest.

What do you teach and what grade level? I've been doing some new things with present tense drills, like going from simple present to emphatic to progressive. The kids are catching on pretty well. I'm guessing that native English speakers might not need this, but I'm not sure.

Please advise,

Don

Re: This sentence is an simple past

User_gary — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:34:54 GMT

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.

[I have already learnt articles from many source but still I am confusing with the use of articles]

Could you tell me why here articles are not used? [I might get some idea about use of articles by your replies]

Re: This sentence is an simple past

nona the brit — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:13:23 GMT

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').

Re: Changing Tenses

Grammarian-bot — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:24:43 GMT

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 Unreal Past. Now from the text that I read on the internet, I infer that it's the same as subjunctive mood. Following is the link. Read it, if you want to and then please answer my questions.
http://www.english4today.com/oeg/pcontent/IF10.cfm

This is my take on this article. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Now what I understand from this article is that we can use the unreal past by using the simple past and past perfect.
Simple Past is used when we are talking about something in the present and past perfect is used when we are talking about something in the past. Therefore, for present situation we should say "I wish I had more money" and for past situation, we should say "I wish I had had more money". And the same stands true for "I'd rather" and "It's time".

Are these rules of simple present and simple past used in the subjunctive mood. Is teher any difference between subjunctive mood mood and unreal past? Both refer to a hypothetical situation.

Please can you explain the use of I'd rather. I can't replace it with it's implied expression. I mean when someone says "I'd rather you went", so does he mean that "I suggest you go".

GB