Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Tense questions
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00 1. Please tell me why it has to be in the present tense. Please look at 'says' at the Final Line. 02 br
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00 A Joke in "Think English", the name of a supplementary paper/insert that came with the Saturday, April 19, 2008 issue of JoongAng Daily/Herald International Tribune: 02 br
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00 The name of joke is "Who Should Brew the Coffee" 02 br
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00 Paraphrase of rest of the content: A man and his wife were arguing over who should prepare coffee and while arguing over who should do it, the wife mentions that a man should do it because it is even in the Bible that he should make coffee. Disbelieving that it exists, the man asked his wife for the part in the Bible. 02 br
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00 Final line: The wife then fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says... "HEBREWS" 02 br
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00 2. Why is it has to be in present perfect? 02 br
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00 Introducing his book: 02 br
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00 The items in this book are based on ... A word can have many meanings ... I 01 u 00 have had to be 02 u 00 selective and 01 u 00 have often only been able 02 u 00 to illustrate one of several possible meanings. 0-
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00 1. Please tell me why it has to be in the present tense. Please look at 'says' at the Final Line. 02 br
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00 A Joke in "Think English", the name of a supplementary paper/insert that came with the Saturday, April 19, 2008 issue of JoongAng Daily/Herald International Tribune: 02 br
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00 The name of joke is "Who Should Brew the Coffee" 02 br
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00 Paraphrase of rest of the content: A man and his wife were arguing over who should prepare coffee and while arguing over who should do it, the wife mentions that a man should do it because it is even in the Bible that he should make coffee. Disbelieving that it exists, the man asked his wife for the part in the Bible. 02 br
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00 Final line: The wife then fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says... "HEBREWS" 02 br
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00 2. Why is it has to be in present perfect? 02 br
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00 Introducing his book: 02 br
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00 The items in this book are based on ... A word can have many meanings ... I 01 u 00 have had to be 02 u 00 selective and 01 u 00 have often only been able 02 u 00 to illustrate one of several possible meanings. 0-
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0 01 pre 00 "1. Please tell me why it has to be in the present tense. " It doesn't have to.
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00 "1. Please tell me why it has to be in the present tense. Please look at 'says' at the Final Line." It doesn't have to. Another possibility could be to use Past Simple. It is allowed to omit tense shifting when the subordinate clause contains an actual statement or a general truth: "Holmes didn't know that Earth revolves ab
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