• Re: A propsal for school essay

  I'm no marker, sorry. You make the mistake most CE candidates make: making your sentences ...
  textbook. It is the work that school can be (not passive) done for saving paper. 3. Placement of more
  ESL Essay, Writing World by julielai 5 yr 1 days ago Dates, Tenses, Verbs, Past Tenses, Modals, Modal Verbs

• Re: Suggest + "not do" - verb pattern

  the complicated predicate "to do X" in your sentences' subordinate clauses. I'm assuming ...
  is not grammatically incorrect, it can sound too passive when "suggest" and "should"
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by youngcalifornian 1 yr 95 days ago Verbs, Constructions, Clauses, Nouns, Pronouns, Negatives, Auxiliaries, Gerunds, Predicates, Subjunctives, Interviews

• Re: Present tense form, the past tense form and the past participle

  TENSE FORM "was shot" = simple past tense in the passive voice; "was" = past ...
  sentences, I have put the verb forms you labeled into boldface type. Basically, you labeled only
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by yankee 118 days ago Tenses, Present Tenses, Simple Past, Past Tenses, Writing, Sentences, Simple Tenses, Numbers

• Re: Grammar

  Hello, Amy, rejecting any of the sentences and condemning them as absolutely incorrect would ...
  language works. Moreover, 'will not be forgotten' is a short passive phrase that is likely
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by gleb_chebrikoff 2 days ago 7:39 pm Clauses, Predicates, Writing, Sentences, Students, Teaching, Negations

• Re: are these sentences correct?

  depends on what you want the sentences to sound like. "should be" is the subjunctive
  alt.usage.english by cybercypher 5 yr 183 days ago British English, Subjunctives, Sentences, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Writing, Languages, Numbers

• Re: "not a"

  Maple wrote: An interesting episode: I used "I can't read one of the sentences you were chatting with. ....." in a forum, and the chatter replied with explanations of all the sentences
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by marius hancu 3 yr 84 days ago

• Re: TO BE

  I have mentioned three sentences. These sentences are the result of joining of two sentences. Just I want to see after splitting into two, how these sentences look(constructionwise). Please help me
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by rajan123 3 yr 350 days ago

• Re: Check my translations, please

  here. 3. A pair of gloves was given to me for Christmas. Okay. I assume the passive was on purpose. 4 ...
  taking me to the zoo. Passive I remember that I was being taken to the zoo. 10. Active Okay
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by grammar geek 1 yr 306 days ago

• Re: locked in

  it is a passive verb in this context. You're right. Probably, in the following context, it's used as a passive verb: ...... Yes, with some reservations -- explained below. It's hard
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by califjim 2 yr 30 days ago Verbs, Tenses

• Re: How are these different?

  be revealed and the road can be walked, as in the first pair of parallel structures (implied passive ...
  was so you'll have a passive constuction -- the same passive stucture implied by the first pair above. 1
  ESL General English Grammar Questions by califjim 2 yr 170 days ago
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