I have read this sentence and I'm not sure that it's correct He has been buried 4 days I think it should have been He has been buried for 4 days. Am I correct?
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The other day I heard someone say:       They've been going out a week; I mean, that's not (a) serious (relationship).     I wondered if she was speaking correctly, which is presumable, since she was a native American English speaker. But more often I here the for when people talk about duration. So is it also possible to leave out for? Maybe only in the informal register?   EDIT: There was a heavy stress on the word week. Does it play a role in this matter?  EDIT#2: ... OK. It's more suitable as an answer.
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I've watched 10 movies until now. He should have been here by now  I think in the first sentence, "by" doesn't work and using it will not be idiomatic. This applies to the using "until" in later sentence too. For me using "until" will not be be a correct usage. Instead the "until" in the first sentence and "by" in the second sentence fit the best. Am I right?
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We are currently in the process of finishing planning for the outage.    It the preceding sentence grammatically correct?    Is the preceding sentence ideally structured?   If not, what would be a better way of saying it?
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A line from William Golding's The Lord of the Flies:     All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.   Is it just me or does the sentence seem grammatically off?
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Which one is correct, or are both of them fine?    "It would take the average person 10 days to read this novel"    Or    "It would take an average person 10 days to read this novel"
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Two days had passed since she had last eaten or slept.   Or should it be:     Two days have passed since she last ate or slept.   Or something else? And why? The combinatorial explosion of past simple, past perfect and present perfect is killing me.
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Is it grammatically  wrong  to say      It's been too hot  in the last / the past few days      It's been too hot for the last / the past few days     I saw this following sentence also, can we omit in it?     He's had two new cars in the last / in the past three years   as     He's had two new cars  the last / in the past three years     Is there a strict rule in using of preposition or non-preposition when we use the last/past ?  What is the structure when I refer to weeks, months ?
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I just would like to know if this sentence would be grammatically correct and in which cases should I use it:  I don't know when he is back instead of he will be back . I know the rule with when "no will" in most cases but we can say" please let me know when it will be available or when it is available"  If that's not correct let me know why please
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I wrote this to my friends a few days ago: (1) It used to take 5 seconds for me to reach Youtube, now it only took me 2 seconds to do it.  I used "now" to refer to the moment when I installed a faster connection hardware. I come up with this question, because I think the use of "now" in sentence 1 is informal and it is like a colloquial conversation. I am sorry my friends. Back in those days I was taught (by my English teachers, non-native speaker) that now must use in present tense, so the use of now sometimes confuses me.
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In the song, you can hear how she pours her heart out with such   intense emotions in her clear, powerful voice, complaining why   everything in her life has gone so wrong. Please just listen to her   voice and see how she wails; the wails that were not only for her but   also for all those who across generations have found themselves in   her situation.   Can you tell me whether the "have found" written on the fourth line (bold) of the previous sentence is the correct tense to be used? Should it just be "found" instead of "have found"? Please tell me the grammatical reason for it. Or if you feel the sentence should be written in an entirely different way?  Are any punctuation marks missing in the sentence?
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In a sentence taken from the Oxford Dictionary:     ‘The inscription on his tombstone in Groombridge Church, where he is buried alongside his three children, bears his original name and no reference to his nom de plume.’   Is ‘buried’ an adjective, a , or a   because it follows the copular verb is?      Predicate nominatives complete only linking verbs. The linking verbs include the following: the helping verbs is: am, are, was, were, be, being, and been; the sense verbs: look, taste, smell, feel, and sound; and verbs like become, seem, appear, grow, continue, stay, and turn.   Or is it a past participle because the clause is in the passive voice?   Does “he is buried” mean currently his body lies in a coffin covered with soil, or  does it mean he has been buried by someone?  If we say ‘he was buried’ it clearly refers to an event that happened and ended sometime in the past. It might even suggest that the burial ground has since been changed.
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Is it right to say   He was telling me that he will go on a vacation next week.  while recounting your experience?  Even though "he told me that he is going..." seems more appropriate, I would still like to know if the above mentioned expression sounds okay or not.
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I desire he visit us more often.     This is correct, right?     I hope he visit us more often.     Why is this incorrect? Why should I use “visits” instead?
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It is common to say "What happened to him (or somebody)?" to inquire about somebodies' whereabouts. But is it right?   In my opinion, it should be "What was happened to him?" or "What did happen to him?", even it can be "What had happen to him (before today)?" Am I wrong in this understanding?
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I took this photo by the lake last Saturday, Grandma. It looks lovely.   Do you know any of these people?      Yes, I do. The man who’s reading the newspaper is William.      He’s wearing a nice hat.      He is, isn’t he? Grandpa knows him, I think!   Why don't they say "he was wearing a nice hat" because that was happening in the past?  Can we use the present tense to describe people in a video?  For example, "Look at you in this video! You are smiling and swimming in a bathtub".
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Do my analyze is correct? If don't then correct it.  Sentence: The tsunami and the undersea earthquake which triggered it, the largest ever recorded in the region, killed nearly 20,000 people, destroyed over 100,000 homes and threw the lives of tens of millions into turmoil.  Subject: The tsunami and the undersea earthquake Principal verb: triggered Adjective clause of subject:the largest ever recorded in the region, killed nearly 20,000 people, destroyed over 100,000 homes Use of parallelism:threw the lives of tens of millions into turmoil.
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Where did they go?   Where do they went?   Can you please advise which of above forms is correct?  I'm pretty sure that first one is fine but wondering about second one.   Can I use a second form as well or it's incorrect?