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Hello teachers! I have more here to be grammar checked. Even I was sure about the grammar, there used to be the wrong grammar. Thanks in advance! B. Discovering grammar Example 5 and 6 shows that students are encouraged to work out for themselves how language forms are constructed and used....

Hi there. Welcome to EF. The differense between them happens to be interchangeable in some informal way or in narratives. We use Past Simple along with Present Perfect when we're talking about events happened in the past, but Present Perfect points that event may occur in the present again....

Devrim55 wrote: If we ...........ready for the YDS exam decently, we .........at least two and a half hours a day for reading questions. a)were to get / should have spared b)got / would have spared c)are to get / had spared d)have gotten / would spare e)have to get / must...

Newbie2007 wrote: Quangtn03 wrote: Hi newbie. "I wish you will have..." is a true conditional sentence. I think this is a letter so the writer have a wish for his friend. The latter is "I wish you will be happy", not "I wish be happy". He write for friend not for himself. Are you...

Hi, She is at her desk , being afraid of something. Is this sentece above correct? Can I leave the being out? Yes, leave it out. Can I use being in the past simple sentence below? Again, leave it out. She was at her desk , being afraid of something. It's an odd phrase in...

Mister Micawber wrote: Future Simple (I will sit) Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting) Future Perfect (I will have sat") Present Simple (I sit) Past Simple (I sat) Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting) Past Perfect (I had sat) Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

Future Simple (I will sit) Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting) Future Perfect (I will have sat") Present Simple (I sit) Past Simple (I sat) Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting) Past Perfect (I had sat) Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been sitting) Any I've missed?...

CalifJim wrote: I avoid answering ... You just did " src="../emoticons/emotion-2.gif"> Avoid or answer? I tried responding to the phrasal verb thread and got into some technical difficulties. For some reason, it wouldn't let me post. And then I just forgot about it and never tried again as I got...

Hello, Shiv The only wrong construction is sentence #1. "Went" is the past tense of "to go", and the past tense doesn't -as a norm- use an auxiliary verb in affirmative statements. And, in any case, the auxiliary of the past simple is "did": "He went out a while ago." "He didn't go out a...