By Tenses, Determiners

Hi, Financial minister had held the meeting with the senior officials. Is ‘had held’ is correct, I think only held should be there 'Had held' is a correct tense. You can use any tense (past / present / future / continuous / etc.) in a sentence like this, but whether it will be...

1. We really appreciate your giving us your opinion regarding this issue. OK 2. We really appreciate you giving us your opinion regarding this issue. Not OK What comes after the main verb ‘appreciate’ is a noun phrase ‘your giving …’. ‘Giving’ is a gerund acting as a noun. What precedes a...

There are two catagories of English grammar books avaliable in the market. 1) Prescriptive : This kind of books teach how to correctly use various english words, how to use various forms of Tense/Determiners/Prepositions etc.. I belive Muphy's books belong to this catagory. You may also want...

Walking as if each step were painful1, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled down the nearest aisle2. 1: Dependant clause (what kind of dependant clause??) I'm kind of confused as to the nature of this subordinate clause... It is reduced clause(While/As she was walking...) ...

Thanks Philip. How about the next one: Walking as if each step were painful1, she slowly pushed open the glass door and hobbled down the nearest aisle2. 1: Dependant clause (what kind of dependant clause??) I'm kind of confused as to the nature of this subordinate clause... 2:...

You have problems with determiners, plurals, verb tenses, prepositions and general grammatical structure. I've corrected the first paragraph for you and highlighed problems in the second. In the second paragraph you have started inserting a space before commas, which is incorrect. The government...

ringed and beated are not correct past tenses of these verbs. Rang and beat are the simple past tense for these verbs. You could say The world rang in the new year. USC beat Michigan in Rose Bowl if you wanted to express these things in past rather than present tense. However, both of these...

Anonymous wrote:Hi there, i got a question about one of the sentence listed recently on this english forum, why does prepare has an -ed at the end of prepare? i thought is asking a question, so therefore you don't need to an -ed at the end of prepared/ Original sentence: Have you prepare the...

Q1: Nowadays/these days are synonymous. I still hear 'nowadays' quite a lot in the UK. Q2: If i want to said ... "The inflation make the price of consumer's goods rise". No, your use of the determiner is incorrect, you have your tenses a little confused, and 'consumer goods' is a compound noun...

I don't think I've ever read anywhere that 'my' is a possessive pronoun. Modern grammatical analysis argues that both possessive pronouns and adjectives are possessive determiners. The classification by grammarians of linguistic features is their domain; ours as educators is to clarify the...