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does anyone know anything about passive voice? i just have a quick question if anyone knows it...
I can’t figure out how to switch active voice to passive, without changing the tense.
For example, present simple tense, “paints” is active,
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Hi
I just wondered if someone would be so kind as to just check my answers make sure I have understood correctly. Many thanks in advance.
I have to read the following sentences and decide if they use one of the following 4:-
the
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yaggy74
8 days ago
Verbs, Tenses, Present Continuous, Present Tenses, Modals, Modal Verbs, Relationships, Sentences, Friendships, Friends, Continuous Tenses
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For most action verbs. present continuous refers to the present moment ('I am typing in this box') while simple present refers to an action that happens anytime in the past present and future ('I type in these boxes when I have free time').
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PERFECT TENSE is something that happened in the past which affects us at present
CONTINUOUS TENSE continues as we speak ie be, am are is (plus present participle)
PERFECT CONTINUOUS something which started in the past and continues to
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Hi, Your tenses are fine. However, your sentence is incorrect because it lacks capital letters. Clive
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I'd say they're interchangeable. The present continuous implies that he's done well over a longer period of time, but the simple present implies that this is the very latest news. The "so far" seems like a hedge. That is,
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It's present tense like, "She takes walks in the park." It's sort of an habitual practice. It happens to be the GSMA's business to regularly estimate this sort of thing. If you used past tense, it would mean they only
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Hi, Moonyscorp. Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us. Both versions work, although the expression is more common with "with." The only thing that bothers me is the sense of timing. Usually such a comment accompanies a new
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avangi
38 days ago
Capital Letters, Tenses, Present Continuous, Present Tenses, Writing, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Continuous Tenses, Languages, Expressions
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These are two different present tenses: simple present and present continuous. They're often interchangeable, but "to do your homework" is a one time act, which will be completed. "To be doing your homework" means
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They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have
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cool breeze
42 days ago
Tenses, Auxiliaries, Present Continuous, Present Tenses, Past Perfect, Present Perfect, Past Tenses, Conditionals, Modal Auxiliaries, Morphology, Future Tenses, Sentences, United Kingdom, Continuous Tenses, Languages
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