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Why present perfect in “When the night has come”?
In the song “Stand by Me”, we see a sentence like “when the night has come.”
I was taught that in a when clause, we use the past tense, yet the present perfect has been used in the sentence cited ...
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ending a sentence with a preposition [duplicate]
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When is it appropriate to end a sentence in a preposition?
"a soul can sense when it’s being talked to."
Does this sound OK? I don't like ending with a preposition, but ...
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Loathe. The atypical use of the verb [closed]
I have a quick question about the atypical grammar of mine. I am a poet using iambic pentameter. The question is whether the following is grammatically correct:
I she loathes.
That I loathe.
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