By Tenses, Marriage

I've been married for 16 months and separated for 10 of those months. The reason for the separation is because my husband thinks my kids, from my previous marriage, 13 and 10, will never learn to behave. I had been a single mother for 7 years and worked 2-3 jobs before I met my husband. So, I...

I have underlined some problem areas: The Woman Within the Doll The Baltimore Sun wrote that back in 1879, “A Doll's House” by Henrik Ibsen “shocked and offended people wherever feet” (1031). This might have caused him to become the “half-drowned” kind of man, as he refers...

Avangi wrote:Thanks, L. What about the mechanics of "whenever he comes"?Hi Avangi,Very interesting question! Now with the additional information, the situation is no longer 'habitual' as addressed earlier. So how do we explain the marriage of the simple present and the simple future...

Dear all, For whatever its worth – Here is my opinion as I promised to deliver: The issue we have been dealing with here boils down to one question – “In one sentence, grammatically and semantically, could we use both simple past and present perfect for one item?” Evidently, the...

Hoa Thai wrote: Dear all, First, I would like to thank you in advance for reading this rather lengthy post of mine. I do need to lay out my thinking and reasoning as wide as I can so you can best help me to untangle my own confusion...

Dear all,First, I would like to thank you in advance for reading this rather lengthy post of mine. I do need to lay out my thinking and reasoning as wide as I can so you can best help me to untangle my own confusion...

Tommyensr wrote: for example, When we arrived at the concert, the band had been performing for half an hour already. Fortunately, the concert was three hours long, so we saw most of it. from the example, the concert had not ended yet completely. How had started in the past and kept...

Highlighted a few problems for you... Isabella209 wrote: Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant was born __ (prep) August 5th, 1850 and died on July 6th, 1893. During the 19th century he was a very known (rephrase) French writer -- in fact, __ __ one of the modern masters of the art of the...

Hi Guys, I'm really happy to join your forums .. and I hope to spend useful and fun times with you My question is .. Can we ask a question in simple present tense which its answer is in past simple? For example, I may ask a question that is to be true either in the present or the future...

When taken from context, what does the word hystrical mean in the "Yellow Wallpaper?" When asked by my teacher, I replied, "it means anxious and unsettleing." But he said it was wrong, he said it meant funny and crazy (I was lefting wondering how it could be funny and crazy at the same time?). ...