After talking it out with some fellow teachers and looking some terms up...we're still a little unsure about our conclusions. Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated! "I'm going to talk about Ichiro Suzuki." (Starting out

I was looking through one of my grammar-test books and encountered such a sentence: Celia has just phoned to ask if YOU HAVE FINISHED your part of the project yet. Shouldn't it be HAD YOU FINISHED instead of the above? It is reported speech,

Sometimes it helps to convert a question to a declarative sentence, as you try to figure out the tense of the verb. Ask yourself what the subject of the clause is. Are there more than one? Is the subject singular or plural? The tree is what

ability and skill (which are human/animal characteristics) My Am. Htg. seems to share your view on "ability," but in this age of "artificial intelligence," new abilities seem to be cropping up. And wouldn't it be okay to

Dear Walter, thank you for this interesting question. First of all, blurred should be analysed in connection with being since being blurred is a non-finite complex verb phrase. The meaning of this part of the sentence is obviously passive;

Hello All, is the below phrase correct: - system connectivity completed and ready for test or - system connectivity was completed and ready for test Thanks,

Hello All, is the below phrase correct: - system connectivity completed and ready for test or - system connectivity was completed and ready for test Thanks,

Hello All, is the below phrase correct: - system connectivity completed and ready for test or - system connectivity was completed and ready for test Thanks,

Hello How can I write when I want to keep a clause in the following ? (I heard the following is incorrect because of "verb + that clause". I want to keep a clause because changing a clause into a gerund form is often improper

Is it correct to use the modal verb "would" in what looks seems to be a first conditional sentence? ... I am uneasy about using the modal verb "would" in the main clause if the if-clause is in the present tense. It's