1st part of the sentence: Scots are standing up for the freedom ( sometime around the present time .) Present continuous tense is absolutely the present time. 2nd part of the sentence: to have made it ( sometime before the present, near present

It sounds more like second person to me. "Everything in these three bedrooms needs to be replaced." I don't see the word you anywhere in that sentence. How can it be second person? You need to review this. If the speaker refers only

Agatha, In my grammarbook it is said that every verb-phrase consisting of several verbs, the first will always be finite and the rest non-finite. - When I was a schoolboy, I once noticed that my English teacher made a mistake on the blackboard:

Greetings, Agatha, ... they most also certainly positioned .. - the sentence is barely understandable, to be honest. Please correct and finish it - then it will be easier to help you. ..it appears not to have been in his interest: - not to have

How can one explain the tense, aspect and voice in this one verb? "positioned" -Agatha

" I held her hand lest she should fall." Can we use the lest...should construction in the present and future tenses as given below ? " I am holding her hand lest she should fall." " I shall hold her hand lest she

"What this shows is a government that is ready to make tough decisions." Whether the release of al-Megrahi was right or wrong, Scots are standing up for the freedom to have made it. This is much better. Hopefully, if you went back even

" I held her hand lest she should fall." Can we use the lest...should construction in the present and future tenses as given below ? " I am holding her hand lest she should fall." " I shall hold her hand lest she

Hi Both if-clause constructions in sentence #1 and #2 are possible I think. The first sentence is a regular if-clause. The second one starts with a modal verb, which comes from the full construction 'If there should be any...'. That's

"Wether the release of al-Megrahi was right or wrong, Scots are standing up for the freedom to have made it ." In my opinion, the structure and verb tense are fine, but the choice of verb is incorrect. Or you could say, "w h