Thanks everybody for the replies Paco has written the following: By the way I brush my teeth after breakfast rather than before breakfast. This would be better in economizing the time to keep our teeth healthy. In order to maintain

Paco I know it is not necessary to use past perfect. You can just use the simple past. Therefore ' I brused my teeth before breakfast' is more than enough. I just gave an example to illustrate the past perfect. So my question was whether the

I had brushed my teeth before having breakfast. Is the above fine? I mean whether it is correct past perfect sentence.

Thanks Elmal Now it is clear to me.

1. I went out after I had had my dinner. 2. She got married as soon as she had completed her studies. I found the above two sentences on a web site which describes the past perfect tense in English. I would agree with the second sentence

The word since can be used as an adverb, conjunction or preposition. Since 2004 I have learnd netoworking on Cisco and Microsoft environment. Since I am a bloody foreigner, I have some difficulty in .... I haven't seen him since

Is the original sentence a passive constrution?

1] I now study English. 2] I study English now. One way of describing the difference between the two is where to put the emphasis. In the first sentence, you put the emphasis on the time factor which is now. In other words you want to

pieanne J'aimerais entendre de vous. Je peux pratiquer mon français avec vous. --------------------------------------------------- abbie, you are British. Great!

pieanne Je sais quelque français. Le quel est en français ? Etes-vous français ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- abbie, throwing matches are pandemic. I have heard this in football and