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OrcaDeen Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Help me with these confusing tenses

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00 kindly answer the following confusing question and make us all learn this grammatical rule02br
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00In a certain dialogue between two persons, one of them is saying that he saw (past) some other people who are deceptive and think ill of others02br
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00what are the tenses I should put the sentence in02br
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00" 00I 01u01b00have noticed02b02u00 there 01u01b00are02b02u00 plenty of people, whose faith 01b01u00is02u00 02b00of no use in their social dealings, 01u01b00think02b02u00 ill of others even before communicating with them.00 "02br
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00Thanks in advance02br
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00if my inquiry is not clear, I hope you let me know0-
  

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01i00 I 01b00noticed / have noticed (that) 02b00there are plenty of 01b00people whose02b00 faith is of no use in their social dealings01b00 and who think02b00 ill of others even before communicating with them.02i0-
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0Thank you so much it was extremly confusing02br
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00But the phrase" 01i01b00whose02b00 faith is of no use in their social dealings01b00 " is parenthetical02b02i0-
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0Another confusing tenses ,please02br
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00what if I have been away from my viallage and once I returned people from everywhere kept telling me the news of a man02br
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00Is this ok:02br
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00"Since my return to the village, I 01u00have been learning02u00, from every nook and cranny, all that00 01u
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0The "I have been learning" is okay - it shows that it's still going on right now.02br
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00"From every nook and cranny" isn't quite right. It's a perfectly good expression, but it should be used for physical things, unless the walls themselves are whispering to you. Try "from every quarter."02br
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00Your "has befallen" is also okay - it brings whatev
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0I'm ok with your suggestions 02br
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00thank you so much02br
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00you'r such an expert, indeed0-

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