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munchun2004
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When it comes to complex sentence with adjective clause, I always lost. I don’t know if I should keep the sentence in present or past tense. For examples,
a) Yesterday he went to the haunted house that we all scare of to seek for his missing ring.
As the conversation goes, we still scare of the house, so should we keep the sentence in present tense?
b) If I knew it was the last time I saw you draw picture of a man first sees god, I would have taken a picture out of your painting.
I think the title of the drawing should be unchanged, that’s why present tense is upheld.
c) Grandpa: Stan, come over here. You always told me you didn't know how it feels/felt like being old and on wheel. Now I found way to show you how it feels like to be me.
For this sentence, I really have no idea I should use ‘feels’ or ‘felt’, they both seem correct to me and I don’t know which one to choose.
d) Where did you learn a feat like that? I mean, where did you learn how to disable your enemy like that before he takes his move? It was amazing.
Can present tense be used? I think this sentence is quite fluent to speak of.
e) Look, my second week in CSI you told me when a cheating spouse is murdered, there's always two suspects at the top of the list, the lover and the betrayed.
I heard this dialog on CSI TV show; I repeatedly heard it four times to confirm what I heard. The investigator did say the above dialog which I consider ungrammatical. Is this dialog correct and why?
f) I asked the mechanic one question about how that machine works and to my surprise that mechanic couldn't answer my question.
Should we use ‘works’ or ‘worked’? I think ‘worked’ is appropriate but I am confused.
g) I wish I could have a mentor to show me what is the purpose of life when I was a child.
I find that when an adjective clause is a title of discussion or simply looks like a title, present tense can always be used. Just like the example above. Could it be true?
a) Yesterday he went to the haunted house that we all scare of to seek for his missing ring.
As the conversation goes, we still scare of the house, so should we keep the sentence in present tense?
b) If I knew it was the last time I saw you draw picture of a man first sees god, I would have taken a picture out of your painting.
I think the title of the drawing should be unchanged, that’s why present tense is upheld.
c) Grandpa: Stan, come over here. You always told me you didn't know how it feels/felt like being old and on wheel. Now I found way to show you how it feels like to be me.
For this sentence, I really have no idea I should use ‘feels’ or ‘felt’, they both seem correct to me and I don’t know which one to choose.
d) Where did you learn a feat like that? I mean, where did you learn how to disable your enemy like that before he takes his move? It was amazing.
Can present tense be used? I think this sentence is quite fluent to speak of.
e) Look, my second week in CSI you told me when a cheating spouse is murdered, there's always two suspects at the top of the list, the lover and the betrayed.
I heard this dialog on CSI TV show; I repeatedly heard it four times to confirm what I heard. The investigator did say the above dialog which I consider ungrammatical. Is this dialog correct and why?
f) I asked the mechanic one question about how that machine works and to my surprise that mechanic couldn't answer my question.
Should we use ‘works’ or ‘worked’? I think ‘worked’ is appropriate but I am confused.
g) I wish I could have a mentor to show me what is the purpose of life when I was a child.
I find that when an adjective clause is a title of discussion or simply looks like a title, present tense can always be used. Just like the example above. Could it be true?