Hi there: i need your help. We use simple present tense to tell general truth. I don't understand the tense difference in the following sentence. "Fish live in water" and "oil will float on water". why the first sentence

HI: could you explain what the timeless present is, please? semantically speaking, does English have tenseless verbs? for example, "One plus one is two". Is "is" in the sentence tenseless? Anyway, the sentence refers to no

Normal 0 21 false false false FR ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 hi: I need your help. can someone paraphrase the following sentence please? "How can we know the dancer from the dance? "

Normal 0 21 false false false FR ZH-CN X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hi: there: I need your help. could you tell me the meaning of "as even more" in the following sentence, please? But in

Hi: I have a question about the use of present tense in book review. my question is why book reviews are always written in present tense? while this is not the case in some other sort of writings, for example, essays. when authors make a citation,

Hi there: synposis for a film is always written in simple present tense. I'm not sure which tense should be used when reporting a film content after i've seen the film. thank you. by the way, is the simple present in synposis historic

Hi there: I need your help. when citing some great person's famous remarks or ideas, past tense and present tense are both acceptable. for example; “Any meddling or changing over from one class to another’, says Plato, ‘is a great crime

Hi there, could you please tell me the meaning of "Two down, two to go". I found the expression from an image caption, and it goes like this:" Normal 0 21 false false false FR ZH-CN X-NONE

Hi there: How to interpret the use of Present Tense in "here comes the bus!" or "up we go!"? can we interpret the use as "instantaneous present"? But in my opinion, the coming of a bus" is not an instantaneous

hi: I have a question about English tense. could you explain the use of tense in the following paragraph? (bold italic added) "In the 16th c. there are some traces of a perception that the word might have an extended application to other