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Angel girl1 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Help with tenses?
Hi,
Could you please correct these tenses?
I drew (draw) my curtains early that evening and didn't move out (not, move out). The kitchens sent up (send up) a meal, and I ate (eat) it as I was reading (read) by the fire. The fire kept (keep) high and bright all day; though it was (be) nearly ten o'clock now, I stoked (stoke) it again, shovelling coal up the back of the chimney, throwing it on so it will burn (burn) for hours. It was scorchingly hot in front of the fire, and warm, cosy, shielded, in the zone of the two armchairs and the sofa which forms (form) an island of comfort round the fireplace . Outside that zone, as one goes (go) towards the walls of the lofty medieval room, the draughts were (be) bitter. In a blaze of firelight, which shone (shine) into the sombre corners, the panelling on the walls glowed softly (glow,softly) almost rosily, but no warmth reached (reach) as far. So that, on a night like this, one comes (come) to treat most of the room as the open air, and hurries (hurry) back to the cosy island in front of the fireplace, the pool of light from the reading-lamp on the mantelpiece, the radiance which were (be) more pleasant because of the cold air which one has just escape (escape, just).
Thanks a lot.
Could you please correct these tenses?
I drew (draw) my curtains early that evening and didn't move out (not, move out). The kitchens sent up (send up) a meal, and I ate (eat) it as I was reading (read) by the fire. The fire kept (keep) high and bright all day; though it was (be) nearly ten o'clock now, I stoked (stoke) it again, shovelling coal up the back of the chimney, throwing it on so it will burn (burn) for hours. It was scorchingly hot in front of the fire, and warm, cosy, shielded, in the zone of the two armchairs and the sofa which forms (form) an island of comfort round the fireplace . Outside that zone, as one goes (go) towards the walls of the lofty medieval room, the draughts were (be) bitter. In a blaze of firelight, which shone (shine) into the sombre corners, the panelling on the walls glowed softly (glow,softly) almost rosily, but no warmth reached (reach) as far. So that, on a night like this, one comes (come) to treat most of the room as the open air, and hurries (hurry) back to the cosy island in front of the fireplace, the pool of light from the reading-lamp on the mantelpiece, the radiance which were (be) more pleasant because of the cold air which one has just escape (escape, just).
Thanks a lot.
Top answer
I drew (draw) my curtains early that evening and didn't move out (not, move out). The kitchens sent up (send up) a meal, and I ate (eat) it as I was reading /read (read) by the fire. The fire kept (keep) high and bright all day; though it was (be) nearly ten o'clock now, I stoked (stoke) it again, shovelling coal up the back of the chimney, throwing it on so it will would burn (burn) for hours.
- I drew (draw) my curtains early that evening and didn't move out (not, move out).
- The kitchens sent up (send up) a meal, and I ate (eat) it as I was reading /read (read) by the fire.
- The fire kept (keep) high and bright all day; though it was (be) nearly ten o'clock now, I stoked (stoke) it again, shovelling coal up the back of the chimney, throwing it on so it will would burn (burn) for hours.
- It was scorchingly hot in front of the fire, and warm, cosy, shielded, in the zone of the two armchairs and the sofa which forms /formed (form) an island of comfort round the fireplace .
- Outside that zone, as one goes /went (go) towards the walls of the lofty medieval room, the draughts are/ were (be) bitter.
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I drew (draw) my curtains early that evening and didn't move out (not, move out). The kitchens sent up (send up) a meal, and I ate (eat) it as I was reading/read (read) by the fire. The fire kept (keep) high and bright all day; though it was (be) nearly ten o'clock now, I stoked (stoke) it again, shovelling
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CalifJimso itCould you please explain what is the tense of this sentence ?willwould burn (burn) for hours.
CalifJim So that, on a night like this, one comes (come) to treat most of the room as the open air, and hurries (hurry) back to the cosy island in front of the fireplace, the pool of light from the reading-lamp
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so it will would burn (burn) for hours.
angel girl1Could you please explain what is the tense of this sentence ?Future of the past. After so (that) you need a future tense. If there's a choice between will and would, use the future of the present (will) when the main verb in the main clause is not in the past, and use th
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the radiance which wereis (be) more pleasant
On second look, I think it shoul
angel girl1please explainYou used the present tenses 'comes' and 'hurries' earlier in the sentence. To be consistent, I would recommend staying with the present tense throughout. I also take "radiance" to be the subject, so I used the singular verb.
On second look, I think it shoul
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