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Comment on All the English tenses: timeline infographic by Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:44:30 +0000

In reply to anon.

I don’t know; I guess it felt more natural at the time – I thought that had been updated but apparently not (this is 13 years old now!).

Comment on All the English tenses: timeline infographic by anon

anon — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:15:11 +0000

I like this chart but why did you switch the verb for the present perfect?
“I have been to school” instead of “I have gone to school”

Comment on Should “no” be followed by a singular or a plural noun? by adz

adz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:36:17 +0000

je pense que apres un exercice de Java il est toujour mieux de faire un peut d’anglais pour se d’étendre

Comment on “How many there are” vs “How many are there” in Reported Speech by Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:16:28 +0000

In reply to Xim Kors.

These are all fine.

Comment on “How many there are” vs “How many are there” in Reported Speech by Xim Kors

Xim Kors — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:50:27 +0000

I want to know if all of these questions are correct, if not, why…
-How many customers are there?
-How many customers are there in the café?
-How many customers are in the café?

Comment on When, if and expressing future time with adverb clauses by Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:43:12 +0000

In reply to WiFi Hotspot.

Hi,

I’m afraid I’m not too up to date with the best books these days, but that would be a pretty specific area I suppose. Generally, I’d suggest the only ways you should be mixing tenses within a paragraph would be where you have reported speech/ideas or implied thoughts (e.g. a past narrative might have a present sentence that could be read as a character thought, even without punctuation to show it). Otherwise the main mixes come from conditional structures and the like.

Phil

Comment on When, if and expressing future time with adverb clauses by WiFi Hotspot

WiFi Hotspot — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:18:06 +0000

Hi Phil,

Can you suggest a book that will help me to learn intionally tense mixing in paragraph.

Thnak you.

Comment on The many cases of pronouns: subject, object, possessive and reflexive by Phil Williams

Phil Williams — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:40:10 +0000

In reply to Angelo Pepe.

Yes, thanks for pointing that out, I’ll correct it!

Comment on The many cases of pronouns: subject, object, possessive and reflexive by Angelo Pepe

Angelo Pepe — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:32:43 +0000

Hi Phil, in the above heading, ‘Possessive Pronouns’, you wrote: “The possessive pronoun forms are: mine, yours, his, hers, its, our, theirs.” Shouldn’t ‘our’ be ‘ours’? Thanks.

Comment on Do we write “for ever after” or “forever after”? by TKA

TKA — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:55:44 +0000

In reply to Andrew Dodd.

You should read the knowing and the known