The idea of this discussion is practicing good written English. My idea is the following. I will explain you some grammar and ask you to do some task. I can't promis to check out your replies daily, but you will get my reply in a few days for sure. I will be very glad to hear your ideas about my future tasks.
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Thank you! We can't do it regularly, but we try to add some new information here
Bijan said:
Thank you very much. I understood them well.
I hope you and dear Tanya to continue these nice grammar subjects.
Best wishes,
Dear Bijan! I hope, you don't mind my eplanations and corrections. Well, here are the correct sentences:
1. After I had come home, I read all night long.
2. I heard the phone rang when I was taking a shower.
3. She thought she wouldn't be able to come to her friend's party the next day.
4. He said, he was about to leave when the mailman brought a telegram.
5. He said he hadn't slept/hadn't been sleeping all night long.
6. She said she would be shopping next afternoon.
7. I didn't know he had left.
8. When he returned back home, he felt he was very tired and decided to recline.
And here are my explanations:
1. You need the past perfect tenses after AFTER. On the other hand, one of the verbs MUST be in the simple tense. You don't need the progressive tense in the main clause. You can say it as a fact.
4. TO BE ABOUT TO is an idiom. It means that an action almost started. The mailman brought a telegram. It is a fact. It is like "I CAME".
5. I am sure he said it in the morning. So, you need the past perfect or perfect progressive (if you want to emphase it was so long).
Answering your question I can say this part of grammar is known as "The Sequence of Tenses" and, of course, we use the same rules in the reported speech meaning that all those events took place in the past.
I hope you will continue daily practice. It is very kind of you the above beautiful idea.
Thanks again,
Here are my answers:
1. After I came home, I was reading all night long.
2. I heard the phone rang when I was taking a shower.
3. She thought she wouldn't be able to come to her friend's party the next day.
4. He said, he was to leave when the mailman was bringing a telegram.
5. He said he didn't sleep all night long.
6. She said she would be shopping next afternoon.
7. I didn't know he had left.
8. When he returned back home, he felt he was very tired and decided to recline.
I think that your lesson is about the reported speech, am I correct, please?
Thank you for your beautiful lesson.
Best wishes,
Our dear Bet asked me to explain how to use the past simple and perfect tenses in the active and the passive voices.
Dear Bet! As you sometimes use the voices incorrectly, I will start from this point.
In the active voice, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb (the predicate).
I told you a funny story yesterday.
In the passive voice we can change the word order and use any of the objects as a subject. It means that the subject is no longer active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb. So, it becomes passive.
You were told a funny story yesterday.
What a funny story was told yesterday!
The passive form of a verb is:
The verb “to be” in the necessary tense + the past participle passive (V-ed for the regular verbs and the III-d form for the irregular verbs).
In the examples, given above I have used the past simple tense (was/were).
I will show you the correct forms of a passive verb in all the tenses.
Tense
Present Simple
Am/is/are
Present Progressive
Am/is /are being
Present Perfect
Have/has been
Past Simple
Was/were
+ past participle, passive
Past Progressive
Was/were being
Past Perfect
Had been
Future Simple
Will be
Future Perfect
Will have been
Now, I will give you some examples in all the tenses:
Many houses are built every year.
A new house is being built on our street.
This house has just been built.
This house was built last year.
When he returned, the house was still being built.
The house had been built before he returned.
This house will be built soon.
This house will have been built by the end of the year.
Now, I will explain how to use the past simple and the past perfect tenses.
If we want to say that some action took place as a fact in the past, we use the past simple tenses.
I saw him yesterday.
The frogs were not experienced in moving on such ground.
If we want to say, that some action took place before some moment in the past, we use the past perfect tense.
She said she had seen him yesterday.
The frogs hadn’t experienced moving on such ground before they reached the snowy land.
As to your example with the frogs. In my first example, I have used “experienced” as a participle. Let me explain:
I am experienced in teaching.
It means that I have got such experience and I am experienced now.
I have never experienced doing it.
It means I have never done it before. I have used “to experience” as a verb.
If you still have some questions, don’t hesitate to ask them, please!
Yes, dear Afro!
They are a very good staff
Afro said:
but if i want to say they are very good ( they are very good staff not staffs?)
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