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In what regions is "Do you work tonight?" clear and acceptable usage?
In my answer at ELL regarding a question of whether someone is working that evening, I suggested the alternative:
Do you work tonight?
There was a comment about this being incorrect usage, because &...
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After and Before Clauses
guys. I would like to ask whether a clause should always be in the past if it follows another clause starting with after in the past. For instance: After she read the note, she understands/understood ...
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"Whenever I discuss X, people don't know what I'm talking about" -- why the progressive tense?
Consider the two sentences:
Whenever I discuss X, people don't know what I'm talking about.
Whenever I discuss X, people don't know what I talk about.
I think the first one should be obviously ...
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Shifting tenses in a short story [duplicate]
I am writing a short story using past tense, but I am a little bit confused when it comes to writing this part:
She had never seen a man as athletic as him before. She knew Japanese men (were / ...
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