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Would it be a correct grammar if I used "would have been" instead of "would" in the second sentence or I'm required to use "by now " instead of "now" in the second sentence : "If I had done it a year ago I would be rich now." "If I had...

If I had done it a year ago, I would be rich now. Or: If I had done it a year ago, I would have become rich by now. If I did it a year ago, I certainly remember nothing about it! Did is a simple past tense verb form in the above sentence, not a subjunctive. In languages that use more...

Panesh: Sunrise (one word) is a noun.In your sentence, the word "rise" is a verb, not a noun. Every sentence must have a verb. English used to be a highly inflected language. Over the centuries, the inflections have been changed or lost. The addition of -s in third person singular,...

Hi everyone I just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far: Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived...

Main Entry: irregular verb Part of Speech: n Definition: any verb whose past tense and past participle are not formed by adding -ed, -d, or -t to the present tense, a verb that does not follow the general rules of inflection Examples...

All the rules for adding S are the same for plurals as for third-person singular present tense verbs, including the words that end in y . That said, there are a few exceptions that you will encounter from time to time, for example, words that end in f or fe . There are so few that you can...

Hi Forbes Thank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Hi KFE Welcome to EF. You have already learned about the continuous tenses ( I am reading, he is coming etc.) and no doubt you'll learn about other ways to use the ing-ending in due course. Because there are only a handful of inflections in English, the same verb forms must be used in many...

New2grammar wrote: So you are saying the 'if' usage does not automatically make a sentence subjunctive? Can you give me a couple of examples in different contexts where 'if' is not subjunctive? Certainly, New2grammar: 1. I showed him some pictures yesterday. If he lik ed a picture, he would...

Mister Micawber wrote: The idiomatic ' try and do ' is not acceptably used in any but that fixed form. Any inflection of the verb ( tries and, tried and ) illegitimatizes it. I'll try and help you later. She's going to try and bake a cake. ( X ) She tries and bakes cakes. ( X ) I tried and...