Yes, the parade felt the same way for me. It reminded me of the days when I was seven and all out family used to take long rides far into the country in our Zaporozhets 968, which we later sold to buy a Moskvich 412 Universal with leaf springs at

Wowenglish, The difference is only tense-wise: Past Continuous versus Past Simple. Since having one job of another is more of a state than an action, I'd recommend using the Past Simple tense (shared a job). Anton

Hello, alc24. Yes, you can use «what if» that way. «It took me the halftime break for to eat my dinner.» Anton

Hi, is it true that some certain verbs should always be followed by "should"? If so, how many on the list? No.

Hello, I'd use the second type of conditional: «If this book were to describe all the great things that you have done, it would be the tallest book in the world.» Anton

I do hear it a lot in late 40s and early 50s R&B and Blues music, for that is what I like to listen to. It is all performed by black singers.

Then your sentence says: Hundreds of slave-catching expeditions followed this (first) one. And they were equally, if not more, cruel. Anton

Hello, Angliholic As for grammar mistakes: 1. If you have practice the above daily... 2. You' d ll live a carefree life! Also I will advice you to get rid of the repetition of well in the end of the third and fourth lines. Anton

Hello, tifacat The preceding statement (or remark), referred to in your sentence by "it", applies to hundreds of people in the following generations. Let us know if it is still recondite to you. A wider context might help us to explain