How do you make this into present tense?\n\nIn addition, being stuck on the island showed Ralph traits that are not desired in a leader."
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In addition, being stuck on the island shows Ralph's traits that are not desired in a leader.\n\nnice copying skills below
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Your sentence structure is passive.  To make it active, make the subject of the sentence the administrators and people of the community instead of "the reason," which merely "is."  For example: "Administrators and people of the community hear the same laundry list of complaints from industry leaders in the community," or whatever it is your "reason" is.\n\nGood luck.
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In the kind of situations that you have highlighted, the sentence, which would sound much more appropriate than others, would be "Future Indefinite" as the time factor can't be determined definitely and the process is neither continuous nor perfect. According to the rules of the tense, the correct option in the given example would be "What time will your plane leave?".
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Very well written. A few edits in [brackets] with explanations in (parenthesis).  English is HARD.\n\n\nAfter hatching, the tadpole will eat the [remaining] yolk (awkward) (no comma for subordinate clause) which is in their gut. [The tadpole] (pronoun-antecedent rules)  only had gills, a mouth and a tail when it first came out so it is very dangerous for them. If they [weren't] (subjunctive case for a conditional statement-tough one) careful, they [would] (matches the case) get eaten in no time[.]  (New clause) I’m so glad I’m not a frog; at least I don’t have to worry about this kind of problem! Then 7-10 days after hatching, the tadpoles can swim around[,] (separating independent clauses) and then they will not eat yolk anymore[;] (independent clause) they will find algae to eat. About 4 weeks later, the gills will start getting grown over by skin, and soon they will disappear! Wow! That really is fast! At [that] (article rules) time, tadpoles will get teeth, which can help them (no need to to leave "to chew" in the infinitive) chew and digest better. Few days after that, the tadpoles will interact and be friends with each other, isn’t that great?
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You did a good job but I can’t see where you used rhetoric questioning unless I am mistaken what it is. In the last sentence my word program says to change the “ himself” to “his self”. ◘
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The present tense is used for things that are either 1. regular habits or 2. always true.  For example: I wake up at 8am everyday.   The earth is round.  \n\nThe past tense is used to answer things that happened in a known or specific time.  For example: I went to the movies last week.  \n\nHowever, the question you are asking seems to be part of a poem or lyric.  Without further context, it would be impossible to ascertain who the people are or what they are doing.
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I wish I had kept the essay I had written on this book last year, but I do remember some about Ralph.\n\nRalph used the conch shell as a method of gathering the group together, and in doing so, he took an iniative as a leader.  The novel foreshadows him as a good leader because of his physical stature (lean body, fair hair, good complexion).  He embodied all of these characteristics.  Ralph represents democracy and he sees the island as an opportunity to exercise his newfound strength.\n\nHe has some originality of ideas too, such as building shelter first, setting up the fire, the camp, directing who should do what jobs, finding hunters and others to gather fruit, and designating the "bathroom" spot so the tide clears up the waste.\n\nRalph is ineffective because he gets most of his ideas from Piggy and refuses to compromise with Jack and his choir.  Because of this, they separate and get into fights, thereby allowing themselves to transcend into savagery.  The more conflict, the worse his reliabiliy is.  Futhermore, Ralph buys into the theory of a "ghost" or "beast."  It is Simon that discovers the truth, although untimately he pays the price when trying to warn the others of his discovery about the parachuted man on the mountain.  \n\nAs far as his inability to remember his purpose, Ralph gets tied up in so many small conflicts over power.  Gradually, these get bigger and his leadership diminishes.  The final symbolism of his full loss of power  occurs when Piggy is killed and the conch shell is shattered.\n\nI hope this helps!
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I think just some basic stories.  Many children's books are entirely in the simple present tense.  Try baby books or easy readers.  Hilight the verbs and demonstrate in class.  Have you heard of Total Physical Response Storytelling?  It's a fantastic way to teach languages.\n\nDon't listen to the jerks who answered this question.  I am a teacher and know where you're coming from.  I can't believe some people act like such idiots!  Hey, tarotpete, check your example sentence.  You need to remove the "a" for it to make sense!  LMAO!   Nice!  And bo_hic_a, if you think teachers are overpaid, why don't you try it?  We'll see if you last five minutes in front of a classroom full of teenagers!\n\nGood luck!
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The Cay? With the old man on the island that taught him survival tips? May be wayyy off, but ya never know until you try.\nPeaceout
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He can't trust her anymore : il ne peut plus la croire\nHe could no longer trust her : il ne pouvait plus la croire\n\nIn French we would translate "anymore and no longer" by "plus" instead of using the regular "pas"\n\nDon't trust what google translation said. I just read the 2 translation 2 posts below mine and this ain't French. The words are not in the correct order. Sorry for the person who posted it.
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I'd advice you to ignore, frankly, some of the advice you've been given on this thread. The four options you put forward are in the following tenses: (1) simple past; (2) present perfect; (3) past perfect; (4) future perfect. Hence, the present perfect of the sentence is "Norman has studied algebra".
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That is a correct present perfect progressive passive sentence construction, except you would need to keep the "on", not put it in parenthesis. However, it is a very awkward sentence. Passive voice is best avoided unless you have no choice because you don't know the agent of the verb, or because you are trying to make a point. Passive voice becomes even more convoluted in the progressive (continuous) tenses. There are other ways of expressing the same thing. \n\nThe point is, though, you did construct a proper sentence.\n \nPresent perfect = have/has + past participle of the next verb. \nProgressive/continuous = form of "be" + present (-ing) participle of the next verb. \nPassive voice = form of "be" + past participle of the next verb. \nPut that together and you get Have + past participle of be/been + present participle of be/being + past participle of cheat/cheated. (Present perfect progressive passive voice)\n\nHave been being cheated.
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First of all this is 4 paragraphs, but I'll give you my criticism anyway.\n\nThe line "Where's ---" should probably be "Where's --,"\n\n"cut off" should be "cut-off"\n\nThe phrase "being tied to his mouth" implies the wrong action.  I would use "being tied around his head."  Honestly, I'd restructure this sentence altogether since it is using a weak passive construction (the word "by").\n\n"Littarly" is spelled wrong.  Should be "Literally."\n\nMy overall impression of this excerpt isn't great.  Because it's pulled from something larger, the references are ambiguous making it hard to give an accurate reading.  Two things in particular that you may want to change is the use of the word "Literally" as it is defined as physically seeing you character in hell and the the overly simple last sentence.\n\nJust a reminder that this is purely criticism and should not be taken to heart.  In the end, you are the artist and can do anything you want to.
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After present tenses! Lol
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It is a little ambiguous as to why you are asking; the purpose of why you ask would greatly cutdown on the aolution. Given that, i will assume you just want the simple form and not the "categorical" explanation (but if you are see below).\n\nOf course you know you need a subject and a verb to make a sentence. Those things which point to (or describe) the verbs are adverbs and those which point to (or describe, actually termed "modify") the noun(s) are adjectives. There are some 'tricky' spots, but this is generally the rule.\n\nAlso in a sentence you have a subject (main actor/action) and a predicate (2ndary subject/action). Those things which describe your predicate's nouncs are "predicate adjectives" and those which "modify" the verbs are "predicate adverbs". Adverbs, as you may remember, usually end in "ly" but not always...it is better to look for that which modifies your verbs! This is it in a nutshell...\n\nExample: John was extremely hungry and so he ate all of the delicious pie.\n\nJohn [subject/noun] was [verb] extremely [adverb] hungry [adjective] so [conjunction] he [pronoun] ravenously [predicate adverb] ate [predicate verb] all [adjective] of [preposition/adposition] the [article] delicious [predicate adjective] pie [predicate noun].\n\nNow, i want you to know that I am not an English teacher or even a major...i did teach a language course in Greek and did very well in English...but i am not guaranteeing my comments as 100% factual...these notes are merely my understandings of them...you'd need to do further research...or you could always "google" your questions or ask jeeves (ask.com)...\n\ni hope you do well and get straight "A's!"
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hi,\nThere is nothing much wrong with this write up. you can just spruce it up by changing a few things here and there. \nYou can actually reduce the usage of I. This woman could be changed to she.(it sounds better) \nFrom that day on... could just be written as From that day, I begged my mother to let me play as I was like/the,King kong trapped in a small cage waiting to break free. Finally I was let out. I started to play....\n..and but is .
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Nber 1 needs some transformations :What do you think about me performing +...this play, this show, that dance...\n\nNber 2 is CORRECT!