Hello; the following text was taken from a grammar book, and i can't see the point the author wanted to convey. "Other uses of the progressive aspect It may be used especially following the auxiliary will or shall with the special

hello, i have a question about present tense used to indicate future event as unalterable. we can say "I go to London tomorrow", but why not "I write you a letter tomorrow"? thanks

hello, there; could you please explain the semantic difference between the following two sentences? "I hope the weather is fine tommorrow" and "I hope the weather will be fine tommorrow". Is there any difference between

in the film Unforgiven , played by Clint Eastwood (1992), before the hero pulls the trigger to kill Little Bill, the latter (Little Bill) says:"please, I was building a house". My question is: semantically, is the house being built but

Hi there: I have a question about the name of a grammatical term. In the "simple present" and the "simple past, (or the "simple tense forms"), what's the meaning of "simple"? does it mean "easy", or

Hi: could you please explain the difference between "Recently, John had arrived in Pontefract" and "John had recently arrived in Pontefract"? thank you.

Hi there: how to interpret the meaning of "now" in this sentence: "My daughter will now play the clarinet for you". Does "now" in the sentence mean "at this moment"? by the way, Does the sentence convey a

Hi there: could you explain the use of "will be to" expression in the following paragraph: " our first task will be to locate and to describe the most common ....". Can we replace "will be to" by "will"?

Hi: there: it is said that the main function of the simple present tense is to describe"the constitution of things". But I can't see the exact meaning of the phrase "the constitution of things". could you please paraphrase

Hi: could you explain why we in general don't say things like "Hitler loses the Second World War"? even if we consider this event as having lasting and actual significance. however, we usually say things like "COLUMBUS discovers