What is grammatical construction?
What kind of grammatical constructions were used in the sentence below?
She had a pregnancy test yesterday but was getting nowhere. What are all you learning from it?
I just don’t understand this at all. If a person says she is mad with words, what did she say?
How can we say it differently? What
were some issues the next day when I had to take a drug test a few hours later?
Is Tomoko Oishi ready for the challenge, even though she pulls an all-nighter from the bus?
In this sentence we have “Future in the Past”.
I want to thank you in advance for your
help. Thank you very much.
Most stories exist in the recent past. In contemporary culture they are written or filmed. If a scene is fictional, it can describe something that has happened and is now being described.
This construction is classic simple past, as would be used in a novel or any description of past events.
I have a test tomorrow, but she gets nowhere. “Following
the test, lets put it up into the present-tense. Why
does the sentence above come in some way about a friend who is currently struggling to revise for a test? Why should an object be written in the present if it contains very little information about an event previously experienced, then just change the verbs (“has” and “is”) and delete them and voilu00e0…the original sentence. She had
a testing tomorrow, but was getting nowhere. I really tried it. So I got a problem! I just got into that. When will her answer be? In
your second example, Tomoko Ishii is Japanese. Think about the present form you would get if you changed verbs “wasn’t” and “pulled” to their present forms. “isn’t” and “pulls”.
