Review your understanding of the three Conditionals: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional2.htm

Q1. Sometimes, 'could' is just the past tense of 'can', and means, 'was able to.' Q2. No. "Twp days ago, I could..." is correct. It becomes " ...I couldn't" if your strength has deserted you

We use past perfect to place event B further back in time than event A: I found : past tense. Obviously, Joe must have written the assignment before that. I found that ( when you actually wrote this assignment, further back in time) you had made

I think CalifJim missed the point. We had been told there was an inviolate rule and I replied to give one more example where this 'rule', if we call it that, does not apply. I forgot, as I browsed, that I was not signed in, and so my post

Yesterday we had eaten pizza but later ate sandwiches    the 'yesterday' is irrelevant to the discussion - that is just specific detail. The tense alone places it (i) sometime in the past and tells us that (ii) something else later in time

...and someone might like to tell this learner of the English language just how archaic and unused that expression is!

where on earth have you read or heard of "in despite of"????

In the sentence below, is it possible to understand 'He' as the one who (made/caused) the mess ? It's just that I can't picture the situation. Could you comment please? Thanks Yes and no. "He" didn't actually make any mess, but by his

In this episode of Friends, Rachel has lied to her father about her upcoming marriage to Ross, and wants Phoebe to go along with this, pretending to her father that there is a wedding, and that of course she will be attending. Phoebe is the "nice

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