Who banged on the door? (1) Who was banging on the door? (2) (1) In the first sentence I heard that someone banged on the door,but I wasn`t there when it happened. (2) The second sentence means that I was there when someone was banging on the

You can use the ones you crossed out, but they sound fussy, fastidious, or over-precise to most ears. It may be better to wear a top hat and tails when using those forms! CJ

When I saw him ,he him, he was making a phone call. When I saw him,he him, he made a phone call. The comma goes directly after the preceding word without a space. Leave a space after the comma. 1. Seeing him and his making the call happened at

"How did I miss your m e ssages?" ... "How could I have missed your m e ssages? In the first case the speaker acknowledges that he missed the messages (but he does not know how it happened). In the second case there are at least

1At no time/I ever( believed)/Mrs.Stevens(take) money. If I say:I have never believed that Mrs.Stevens would take the money,is it correct? OK 2 Rarely/I (meet) such/ interesting individual. If I say: I rarely met such interesting individual,is it

"My father would love to have seen this." Most grammarians believe that the correct form is My father would have loved to see this . It's a conditional with an implied if clause: if he were here to see it. Nevertheless all three

How do you lead someone's feet? It might just be metaphoric lead. Anything heavy will do. Cement boots? CJ

...was driving... Is this a phrase in the past progressive? Yes. ... And is it a passive voice? No. And there is no modality here because there is no modal auxiliary, right? Right. (he) Would have reached.. Is this pefect form? I'd

Someone else may spot what you're referring to. Well, I certainly didn't see any personification. Is "a sticky sweet" or "a sentimentality" a figure of speech? The pathetic little piece of drivel is surprisingly

It sounds more like second person to me. "Everything in these three bedrooms needs to be replaced." I don't see the word you anywhere in that sentence. How can it be second person? You need to review this. If the speaker refers only