By Tenses, Sample

Your revision is good, but your absolute statement about not using past perfect for a time in the past is wrong. Yesterday, we had just finished our lunch when the police stormed the house. They had mistaken our house for our neigbhors' and apologized, but not before they had scared the...

Sorry to have confused all of you. My statement"I thought *only* simple present was correct, but I thought wrong. I now know that both present tense and past tense are possible" was only referring to the sample sentence given by Jim(a) "My professor said that spiders are (were...

My apologies for introducing a joke! The "universal falsehood" reference is a complete joke! It doesn't matter whether what is reported is universally true or unversally false. What's important is that in the speaker's mind it is universally (or eternally, if you wish)...

Thank you very much indeed, Jim. That's a great explanation. You cleared all my doubts. Forgive me for thinking out loud as I hope you can correct me if I am still making any mistakes. Firstly, I didn't notice that it was (can only use "was", "is" not possible?) ...

Good Time of Day! Well, I just read the list of members online and found this: -- In the past 3 days, the most popular thread for everyone has been "Sample of formal letter writing". The post with the most views is "Live chat room". The most replies ...

hi there, i'm working on my english prep-tests and there's a sentence which i'm asked to rewrite "She had not seen him until last Friday" i remember there's a structure for rewriting, it starts with NOT UNTIL and then the sentence and as far as i remember there's a change in the subject-verb...

I saw the following third conditional sample sentences from an educational webpage: 1. If I had not gone to university in Spain, I would not be bilingual. 2. If you had attended the training seminar, you would be familiar with the new operational procedures. 3. If we had not felt we...

He was right. Should have stayed just in the past, as this is a past experiement. The purpose of the exercise is to determine if there is a difference in using pH electrode or pH optical sensors when determining an unknown sample. A 95% confidence interval will be used as determined using...

Recently I had written a paper and it was graded by a grad student. On the paper the comments "Stay in one tense. Do not use past AND future tense." were placed next to the Materials and methods title. Will someone point out exactly where both past and future tense is being...

CalifJim wrote:These computations are concerned with subatomic particles.I'm not sure what a modem is, but it's something that's concerned with computers.AARP is an organization that is concerned with retired people. It appears none of your samples has anything to do with "worrying"...