Unanswered Questions
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'Went' vs 'have all gone' vs 'goes' after a future perfect clause
He will have waited there until the lights went out.
He will have waited there until the lights have all gone out.
He will have waited there until the lights goes out.
Are those sentences ...
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Reduced relative clauses
a. Trees which fell in the storm have resulted in several accidents.
b. Trees falling in the storm have resulted in several accidents.
a. Teams which have completed the first round go into the ...
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Non-perfect Tense with Since
Most of the time, the simple or progressive present tense is not used in the main clause, when there is a since clause:
Correct: I have been here since morning.
Correct: I have been waiting ...
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Past Simple/ Present Perfect
Is it correct to say
"I've missed this programme but I've watched another informative programme"
Should I say 'but I've watched...' or 'but I watched...'
Thanks
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I'm having a hard time figuring out “Categorical Noun”
I like fruit
Here, fruit refes to a category called fruit. that's why we use singular form:fruit.
I like oranges and apples.
oranges and apples refer to two kinds of fruit.
I have oranges and ...
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Misplaced modifier? Judging by
I have read many sentences with the modifier "judging by..." followed by the subject "it".
Such as this example:
Judging by his appearance, it is clear that he doesn't comb his hair.
The sentence ...
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Comma after “to”-phrase starting a sentence
I am wondering if I need a comma in the following sentence.
To further our understanding of this phenomenon(,) we conducted yet another experiment.
If the sentence was the other way around (We ...
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Type 2 Conditional - Should verbs be consistent?
From EF (Education First), The type 2 conditional is used, with if clause in simple past and main clause in present conditional or in present continuous conditional, to express an unlikely or ...
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“stretch something to its limit” meaning
I have encountered this sentence:
Science can explain how gravity works between two objects, but why
should it be based on the exact equations we find rather than others?
In fact, why should ...
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“After being several episodes in” vs. “several episodes in”?
Which of the two sentences is grammatically correct?
At first I thought that show was a cheap rip off of Friends, but several episodes in I started liking it.
At first I thought that show was ...
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Is the usage of “and till” appropriate?
Is the usage of "and till" appropriate?
Personally I think it's not correct since "till" is a conjunction and should not be preceded by "and". But I noticed such usage in many examples in many ...
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Picture Someone Engaging VS Engaged
I looked up the word "picture" in the dictionary and it is usually said "Picture someone doing something".
Shouldn't the word "engaged" be "engaging" in the following sentence?
Perhaps you’re ...
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'global role' vs 'role globally'
In a footnote at the bottom of page 123 of A Student's Introduction to English Grammar (2005; by Huddleston and Pullum), I found mention of a construction in which adverbs modify nouns:
There is a ...
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“in” versus “to” in “He went running {in / to} the park.”
Do you agree that:
He went running to the park.
He went to the park running.
mean the same thing - "He got to the park by running."
Now, if I want to say: He went to the park to have a ...
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Entry To, Entry Into
A preposition question:
The United States earned entry to the knockout round with a win over Ghana and a draw against Portugal in Group G.
Source
Google search shows both "entry to" and "...
