2020年1月19日 · The person saying it should be wasn't cited this for support: "The use of were and weren't in the subordinate clauses depends on the reality or truthfulness of the …

The fact that you wish something was or wasn't true means you should use the indicative. You are stating that something is factually one way or another, and wishing for the situation to be …

2020年11月14日 · That use of "wasn't" sounds fine to me. What sounds a bit questionable is the idea that one could tell whether a person is blind just by looking at them. Also, "bespectacled" …

2015年12月2日 · A's use of "wasn't" probably falls under the Simple Past designation. "The baby wasn't sleeping all night" — you might come across this sentence in a book when the narrator …

2018年11月14日 · If you were currently visiting Chicago for the first time, but you had been in Illinois (or the USA) on some previous occasion, but didn't go to Chicago, you might say "I …

2015年3月16日 · A farm woman, at the end of a heavy day's work, set before her menfolks a heaping pile of hay. And when they indignantly demanded whether she had gone crazy, she …

Why wasn't she there? Which would be equivalent to: Why was not she there? Which doesn't make any sense. Considering how often I see this used I thought I could find something online …

"Napoléon was certain to win at Waterloo, if it wasn't not for unexpected heavy rains and his canons stuck in the mud". "If it were not for", subjunctive, express a doubt. "Napoléon could …

2015年11月18日 · Since negative form 'couldn't' can cover all situations (specific or general) you might hear it more. Couldn't can be used instead of wasn't able to. When you hear people …

2013年8月12日 · In the first example, was able to is an alternative. In the second example, could means that the speaker was in hearing distance of the phone, but implies that the speaker …