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24 Nov 2005, 12:57
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Quick english question, please help!
Quick As i can no longer afford english classes, I hope you can solve this little interesting question:
Whats the difference in saying
I used to drive home on sundays
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I used driving home on sundays
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I tried search for ONLINE ENGLISH TEACHERS but they have this serious issues of asking for money....
Thanks a lot, ill be most grateful to whoever solve this riddle!
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24 Nov 2005, 12:59
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
The difference is that the second one makes no sense.
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24 Nov 2005, 13:13
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
The first indicates you once embarked on a car journey home each sunday.
The second that you utilised some object or act of the decription 'driving home' every sunday. perhaps 'driving home' is a place holder for 'anal sex', who knows, would make more sense anyway.
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24 Nov 2005, 13:29
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
Quite a few questions about english grammar can be solved by looking at Latin. This is one of them.
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24 Nov 2005, 13:49
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
Yep, second one makes no sense, unless you using it in place of "anal sex" (credit to djbass)
And the second one also indicates "driving" as a present tense in a sentance that is "past tense" if you get me.
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24 Nov 2005, 17:20
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Quite a few questions about english grammar can be solved by looking at Latin. This is one of them.
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in latin the infinitive tense is made up with only one word, which isnt the case in english and also tends to be the core issue in the problem at hand.
I got conpfused with that and now i realised the differece... that there is not sense in using gerund in the past tense ( oh dear) but i had this question for a while in my mind, and they did seem to be quite similar!
Thanks for all the help people! ill pos rep you lovely guys!
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24 Nov 2005, 17:29
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
Whats you native language?
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24 Nov 2005, 17:39
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
Why hasn't he been deported yet?
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24 Nov 2005, 17:54
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by Baron Morte
in latin the infinitive tense is made up with only one word, which isnt the case in english and also tends to be the core issue in the problem at hand.
I got conpfused with that and now i realised the differece... that there is not sense in using gerund in the past tense ( oh dear) but i had this question for a while in my mind, and they did seem to be quite similar!
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Don't forget that, utilizing infinite tense, a comma needs to appear before a coordinating conjunction linking the parts of a compound predicate. In the case of a genitive singular in dative form of a subject, the possessive qualifier denotes the agent of its action especially in literary use and when the agent is a pronoun or a noun denoting a person or persons.
More abstractly, the thing in itself exists in the never-ending regress in the series of empirical grammatical conditions. Therefore, it must not be supposed that the transcendental unity of apperception can not take account of our understanding, by means of analysis. Because of our necessary ignorance of the conditions, our sense perceptions are just as necessary as time, but our concepts are what first give rise to the phenomena.
I hope that clears things up.
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24 Nov 2005, 18:00
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by Baron Morte
in latin the infinitive tense is made up with only one word, which isnt the case in english and also tends to be the core issue in the problem at hand.
I got conpfused with that and now i realised the differece... that there is not sense in using gerund in the past tense ( oh dear) but i had this question for a while in my mind, and they did seem to be quite similar!
Thanks for all the help people! ill pos rep you lovely guys!
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24 Nov 2005, 18:01
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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24 Nov 2005, 18:02
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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This isn't the RP forum, emoting is banned.
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You never saw it
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24 Nov 2005, 18:52
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
The infinitive isn't a tense. If anything, it's a mood.
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24 Nov 2005, 18:55
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
The difference is that the second one makes no sense.
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I used driving home on sundays as a time to think; a time to reflect on events of the past week.
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24 Nov 2005, 19:10
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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I used driving home on sundays as a time to think; a time to reflect on events of the past week.
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That would be used/sunday or use/sundays.
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24 Nov 2005, 19:11
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
Not if you were describing something you did regularly last year (I think)
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24 Nov 2005, 19:14
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Not if you were describing something you did regularly last year (I think)
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Yeah, that works. My mistake. It still doesn't work as a clause entire though.
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24 Nov 2005, 19:25
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by KaneED
Whats you native language?
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Im brazilian and about the reasons of why i was never deported, probably they will have something to do with me never leaving brazil...
I would hate getting shot in the head also.... by the pictures i saw it doesnt seem to be an enjoyable or even memorable experience =(
We speak portuguese in brazil
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24 Nov 2005, 19:26
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
i know that dumbass.
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24 Nov 2005, 20:03
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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i know that dumbass.
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Oh yeah, that was a great comeback, congrats...
You remember me of that time when Homer got a Mad magazine, and there was this "great comebacks" section, and then he sais to marge
"Ask if want some cake"
"Do you want some cake homer?"
"No, DUMBASS, LOL ROLF"
that episode was great
* i made up the question, but that was the general ideia, does anyone remembers that correctly? Ill pos rep...
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24 Nov 2005, 20:37
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Re: Quick english question, please help!
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Originally Posted by Baron Morte
Oh yeah, that was a great comeback, congrats...
You remember me of that time when Homer got a Mad magazine, and there was this "great comebacks" section, and then he sais to marge
"Ask if want some cake"
"Do you want some cake homer?"
"No, DUMBASS, LOL ROLF"
that episode was great
* i made up the question, but that was the general ideia, does anyone remembers that correctly? Ill pos rep...
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