
present perfect - "I had never" vs. "I have never" when talking …
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Who is he? Who he is? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
2021年3月4日 · [1] Do you know [who is he]? [2] Do you know [who he is]? The subject-auxiliary inversion in [1] is wrong in most varieties of English, but [2] is fine. The bracketed element is a subordinate interrogative clause (indirect question). Unlike main clause interrogatives, there is normally no inversion in subordinate interrogatives.
How is he? or How is him? [closed] - English Language Learners …
2020年7月12日 · He is a farmer -> Is he a farmer? Moreover, with a question pronoun like "what", that pronoun is fronted, it comes before the verb. He is a farmer -> Is he a farmer> -> What is he? It is the same with "How". The subject is "He", it comes after the verb "is" in the question and the question pronoun comes first.
"She really is..." vs. "She is really..." — what's the difference?
2016年11月20日 · I was wondering if she really is hot. In this sentence, "really" is an adverb (modifying is), and makes the sentence a question of whether "she" is attractive.
tense - Is "saw" or "had seen" correct here? - English Language ...
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Using "Did" should it be followed by past or present tense verb?
2015年7月22日 · 3a. He did *woke up this morning. 3b. He did *looked in the mirror. 3c. He did *noticed his eyebags are puffier than ever. Present tense. 4a. He did *wakes up this morning. 4b. He did *looks in the mirror. 4c. He did *notices his eyebags are puffier than ever. All of the examples in 3a-c and 4a-c are ungrammatical. But the sentences we made ...
"died from" versus "died of" - English Language Learners Stack …
2021年3月23日 · / He died from a heart attack. Die of is more common than die from. Don’t say: He died because of a heart attack. • Someone dies in an accident: He died in a car crash. Don’t say: He died by a car crash. • Someone dies for a person, place, or idea that they want to protect: These men died for our freedom." –
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
-"He's a has-been, she's a rookie. I don't want them protecting my bomb run, sir. PENTECOST: You need to watch your tone, Mr. Hansen." Pacific Rim 2013. That was an example of the meaning of "having been". [has-been : countable noun, informal, disapproving: a person who in the past was famous, important, admired or good at something, but is no ...
"His brother is not so / as tall" – Do ‘so’ and ‘as’ mean the same?
2025年2月7日 · In this case, “not so tall” has a weak implication that the shorter brother is not considered tall, and it would be perfectly acceptable to discover he is positively short. Conversely, “not as tall”, has a stronger implication that the other brother is tall. If he was actually short, the statement would be considered misleading.
grammar - Has seen? Had seen? Had saw? Has saw? - English …
2019年8月30日 · Jerry has seen the dog three times (He saw it on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday). Had saw and has saw are both incorrect. This is not just a memorization thing. Whether the event happened in the past relative to another in the past or relative to the present time determines which form to use.