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Is that grammatically correct? [closed]
I'm going to blog about each feature and progress I made in my book?
Is that grammatically correct?
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Tense agreement in conditional statements: “I could do whatever I want” vs. “I could do whatever I wanted”
Consider the following sentences:
If I had my own place, I could do whatever I want.
If I had my own place, I could do whatever I wanted.
She said I could do whatever I want.
She ...
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past perfect and past continuous [closed]
Which of these is correct?
Before he had come to the factory, Tom was studying at the University of London.
Before he came to the factory, Tom had studied at the University of London.
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Future Passive Progressive? [duplicate]
Does some future passive progressive tense exist, such as:
He will be being interviewed by police."
as a counterpart to the past passive progressive tense, such as:
He was being ...
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He Did Come Home? [closed]
Is this:
1 He did come home late yesterday.
a sloppy variation of:
2 He came home late yesterday.
because of poor editing under adverse writing conditions? Could the writer have ...
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Combining future perfect tenses in a sentence
Which is correct to say?
On Valentines Day 2013 the iPhone will have been for sale exactly half as long as the iPod has been for sale.
or
On Valentines Day 2013 the iPhone will have been for ...
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What should be the correct tense and structure of the sentence? [closed]
Sorry if my question sounds dumb here. I am not a English speaker and now I am trying to learn and improve my English. Suppose following scenario occurs:
Person A has done something wrong in past and ...
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Mixed tenses in a sentence [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
‘Had’ or ‘has’ to describe a past condition which is still present?
Tense change: previous actions on something that's currently true
The employee was injured while ...
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Confused by the past tense and the present tense
Suppose I'm talking about some design scheme. I say something like
"foo was once designed and implemented in a way called bar that ...". Then I want to introduce the original scheme "bar", for ...
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“Became” vs “become”
I'm not sure about the verb tense I should use here:
Run this definition so that the previous changes become/became visible.
I think the correct one is Present Simple but it sounds better with ...
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I lived vs I used to live
I cannot see any difference between these two sentences. I assume both express the same but what is the difference? I thought that "used to" is used to describe an action that was happening in the ...
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“How did you sorted among such large number of t-shirts?” Correct or not? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Question about interrogations in past tense
I asked this question to a friend of mine and he said that you can't use "sorted" with "did". Is he correct? If yes, what is ...
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'Would' for past events
For the sentence,
He said he would buy a new car.
Does adding 'He said' in front make it sound like an event that happened in past? For example, if I write He would buy a new car then that ...
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Unreal vs real time in that example
I have following sentences :
She looks as if she is ill. //she really looks ill
She looks as if she was ill //she definitely is not, I am being ironic or whatever
And when I shift these into ...
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“I met” vs “I've met” [closed]
What's the difference between the following?
I met him in the UK.
I've met him in the UK.
Does the second sentence mean that the event was happened recently?
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Simple past or past perfect in this example
In the following examples:
When I was five years old I had a dog.
Is this a past perfect sentence? Here, I know that the 'dog' is not a verb and because we use third form of verb after 'had' so ...
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Past perfect tense in this example
For the following example:
I had seen many beautiful shops in UK, when I was walking down the street years ago.
I'm not sure if the phrase "years ago" at the end of this sentence is correct. ...
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The use of “will” in assumptions
We can use will for both past and future assumptions. But how do we differentiate if it refers to past assurance or future possibility? For example:
You will know all about Rachel, of course.
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Use of “had said” in the “The Archers”
In the BBC radio drama The Archers, the following conversation takes place:
A: David, you are not going to say what you saw. You love your family, right?
David: What?
A: ...
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Question about interrogations in past tense
In regard to this answer, my question is similar but that answer is not clear. I want to know why we use base form of verb, e.g. 'go' to form the past tense instead of past form such as 'went'?
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“I had been typing” vs “I was typing” vs “I typed”
I read this on a another forum but couldn't figure out the logic behind the answers.
He had been typing for three hours before he realised that he had typed the wrong documents.
He had been ...
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Use of the word “have”
In a menu title/button, does "have" need to be used? Is "1" okay or should "2" be used?
1) People who contacted you in the last 24 hours
2) People who have contacted you in the last 24 hours
This ...
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Past tense of 'to output': output or outputted?
According to Wikipedia, the past tense (and past participle) of the verb to output is either output or outputted. Are these two forms entirely interchangeable? Or do they have certain nuance in ...
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Past tense vs Past participle tense [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Present perfect tense versus past tense
Here is the example:
I haven't spoken any English for more than 3 years.
vs.
I didn't speak any English over the past 3 ...
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What does “I was had” mean?
Maybe he would help me with Deborah's pablum, take turns pushing the wheelchair. It's good to have someone.
That reminded me that I had someone -- or perhaps I was had. In any case, Rita would ...
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When and why is “flied” used as the past tense of “fly”?
Why is the form "flied" used in baseball instead of "flew"?
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What difference does using 'had' make to those two verb tenses, and if so, what is it?
What is the difference between if I had studied and if I studied?
Can you provide an example of when one usage would be more appropriate than the other?
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Should the past perfect be eschewed?
The past perfect serves a purpose: When describing things that happened in the past, it allows us to discuss things that happened before (i.e., in the past’s past). However, a procession of had, had, ...
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Is “would” the past future tense of “will” or just a modal verb?
What's the difference:
Would you give me some advice?
Will you give me some advices?
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What's the negation of “I used to be”? Surely not “I didn't used to be”?
What is the negative form of "I used to be"? I often hear "I didn't used to be" but that sounds awfully wrong in my ears.
