On English Page, you will find a Verb Tense Tutorial."Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. That is not a problem. By studying this verb tense tutorial, you will learn to think like a native English speaker."Here is a standalone link to the Verb Tense Tutorial http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
Yes friend, very clear. Thank you. We are not natives and we need grammar in use not in books, lol. You, Bob and Bill are so kind helping us. God bless you my friend.
As of tomorrow, I will have been looking for the Empire State building for five days. Some time in the future - in this case, tomorrow - will be the fifth day I have looked continuously for the Empire State building.
OK, let us suppose you have been looking for the Empire State Building since Friday. That would be four days. Tomorrow will be five days. That means that when tomorrow comes, that will be the fifth day. So, as of tomorrow, I will have been looking for the Empire State Building for five days.
Does that make it clear ?
Hi frank, very useful links indeed you are like our caring angel with many many useful things. I added them in my computer to check when needed but to be frank this sentence about continous future, I am not really familiar with it. Could you please give me more explanations and use, if you don't mind. As of tomorrow, I will have been looking for the Empire State building for five days. Some time in the future - in this case, tomorrow - will be the fifth day I have looked continuously for the Empire State building.
Nida, I don't think Answers.com is always the best source of information, especially in intricate matters of grammar. While there may be prepositions with no object, they would then no longer be phrases.
So, even though we use we use no preposition with words like home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, the preposition is implied.
For a complete explanation of prepositions and phrases, see here :: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm
Yeah, I know well that a preposition is a part of speech.
However, as for as I know( I may be wrong), to receive your message is a prepositional phrase which serves as an adverbial phrase in Expector smith's sentence.
Here is the definition of a prepositional phrase :
-A phrase that consists of a preposition and its object and has adjectival or adverbial value.
A preposition is a "part of speech"; an "adverb phrase" is a phrase used as an adverb. An adverb is used to modify a verb, a noun, an adjective, or another adverb.
What I know that will is used in situations that will surely happen/occur in the future; where as, would represents an imaginary or hypothetical situation.
There are also conditional situations: I would have worn a coat, if I knew it was going to be this cold.
Also I'm really confused when it comes to usage of will & would.
What I know that will is used in situations that will surely happen/occur in the future; where as, would represents an imaginary or hypothetical situation.
Will you please kindly explain this? Thanks in advance!
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OK, let us suppose you have been looking for the Empire State Building since Friday. That would be four days. Tomorrow will be five days. That means that when tomorrow comes, that will be the fifth day. So, as of tomorrow, I will have been looking for the Empire State Building for five days.
Does that make it clear ?
As of tomorrow, I will have been looking for the Empire State building for five days. Some time in the future - in this case, tomorrow - will be the fifth day I have looked continuously for the Empire State building.
So, even though we use we use no preposition with words like home, downtown, uptown, inside, outside, downstairs, upstairs, the preposition is implied.
For a complete explanation of prepositions and phrases, see here :: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm
However, as for as I know( I may be wrong), to receive your message is a prepositional phrase which serves as an adverbial phrase in Expector smith's sentence.
Here is the definition of a prepositional phrase :
-A phrase that consists of a preposition and its object and has adjectival or adverbial value.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/prepositional-phrase#ixzz166BPXwUp
What I know that will is used in situations that will surely happen/occur in the future; where as, would represents an imaginary or hypothetical situation.
There are also conditional situations: I would have worn a coat, if I knew it was going to be this cold.
to receive your message, is a prepositional phrase which act as adverbial phrase!
What I know that will is used in situations that will surely happen/occur in the future; where as, would represents an imaginary or hypothetical situation.
Will you please kindly explain this? Thanks in advance!
I have a question to ask:
In Expector Smith's sentence, "I was very happy to receive your message!
to receive is a prepositional phrase which act as adverbial phrase!
Am I right?
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