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Ant_222 wrote: ...your explanation through active and passive attributes. I don't know why you need this classification. Maybe it's correct, but I don't like it. Hi, Ant_222. It is not "active and passive attributes," but "active and static attributes." Perhaps I should have used the words...

The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. "Detective: I'm looking for two suspects: one is a man; the other, a woman. Here are their photos. Have you seen them? Helpful Janitor: Sure. The man is an executive who is...

That is me Nigora, I have forgotten my username and password, so i am anonymous this time so, about the verb 'love' and other stative verbs --- language is alive and it changes throughout the time. stative verbs are being used by native speakers in progressive form in different contexts. but i...

Neither of your natural-sounding examples has an indefinite article followed by a time unit followed by "before" within an "if" clause. It seems to me that one or more of these factors must be contributing to the difference we sense. "I think we have met before" has no article and time unit, so...

Right now I'm learning Chinese, my favorite language by far. It's a fascinating language on so many levels! The grammar: The grammar is SO simple when compared with English grammar. There's no verb conjugation like in English. So, instead of having to deal with "I am going, you are going,...