The front pages of Wednesday, October 22 in Spain open in three verb tenses. What was, a spectacular Champions League day ...
The front pages of Wednesday, October 22 in Spain open in three verb tenses.What was, a spectacular Champions League day with debacles for Atlético and a thrashing by Barça; what will be, today we ...
Sound familiar? You have a solid vocabulary, you understand verb tenses, but when you start speaking, something goes wrong.
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When the Past Tense Makes Us Tense

Today, let's weed our grammatical garden. Betty Lundy of West Point, Mississippi, wonders how to say that her son removed ...
When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses, ...
The audience is lulled on a cushion of context and, when it stirs, the victim has already been tidied away. Language is not ...
“Hi, Magi. Your eyes look so sunken! What’s going on? Are you binge-watching?” “No, Millie. I was surfing the net looking for ...
The Hopi are an aggregation of clans that came together at the “center-point” ( Tuuwanasavi) in northern Arizona during the course of their migrations. Because they are not a monolithic tribe, the ...
Imagine standing in line at a café, ready to order a coffee — but the words just won’t come. That’s the kind of everyday ...
The government has announced that some migrants coming to the UK in 2026 will need to demonstrate they can speak English to ...