I can write it something like this and it makes sense to me. Please check it and let me know, if it makes sense to you. What is the Lorax? And why is it there? And why was it lifted and taken somewhere?
Okay. -- Here is additional info: If you say "It is there", it will mean that at that point in the story (right at that line you're reading), "It is still there". But because it is not there at that point in the story, you have to say "It was there."
> If you look deep enough (in Grickle grass) you can still see where the Lorax once stood before somebody lifted the Lorax away.
No. I would rewrite it "If you look deep enough (in Grickle grass) you can still see where the Lorax once stood before somebody lifted the Lorax away".
It is also making sense as you have written "before" and it is telling us that the Lorax stood there before someone lifted him away. But I will prefer had stood much than stood.
I have a grammar usage manual on my shelf that says that I can not say something like "I get up" for me actually getting up, that I must use the progressive construction.
Though, fiction prose will say stuff like "I am looking for Tiger", but that's because the writer wants to extend that situation, the situation of being in the process of looking.
The simple past version can be used for both: the whole thing has already been done by the end of the sentence, or the thing could still be in progress by the end of the sentence. Often the context, or the next sentence will be needed for the proper interpretation.
@user62015 That is the "default" way of inserting "once" into a past-perfect construction. But sometimes a writer may wish to put "once" or something like it in a different place.
The most important point is: when the narrative is in the past tense (most novels use this style), think of the past perfect as something happened before that line. That's all.
Editted: "I just want to get feedback about my written English. Have I used commas and full stops at the right place during the chat or had I made so (delete "so") many mistakes?"
Can anyone try to correct this for me. I don't get what my participant wanted to write. ' Yes, I see that the amount has not been updated till yet. If the amount you want to receive it on check it will take 7 to 10 business days to get deliver at your mailing address.'
Can you look at the correction........Yes, I see that the amount has not been updated yet. If you want to receive it through check, it will take 7 to 10 business days to get it delivered to your mailing address.
I am sorry @DamkerngT. I am a learner and wanted to have more suggestions on this one.
Just drifting around, waiting for questions, transcribing a book that has to go back to the library soon. Waiting for my wife to come home so I can make dinner.
Just an opinion on a very commonly used statement in our business to inform a customer that they can’t make changes to their benefits unless they experience a qualifying life event. Please let me know if you find the below suggested statement more polite and grammatical.
In that case you want to put it in quotes, so people know exactly what they are to compare your rewrite to. And "in our business" is ambiguous: in US usage it means "in our industry", among everybody who works in our field, but I suspect you mean "in our firm".
Also: My impulse (but this is personal, my own style, and may not be appropriate to you, or to the way things are said in your firm or your country) is to explain the problem before advancing a solution - others may not see anything wrong with the current statement. So I would write something like "Hi, everybody - It has occurred to me that what we usually say to our customers, 'You can't make changes to your benefits unless you experience a qualifying life event',
may be received by them as ...' -- or 'understood by them to mean', or whatever the problem is that you see. THEN go ahead with 'So I would like to suggest that we say this instead:'
And I would make the subject block something like Suggestion for customer communications. Note: suggestion, not opinion -- invite their input rather than challenging the practice.
@Arrowfar Evening, Farooq.
@Kabir101 But take that with a grain of salt. I'm older than anybody else in my shop, and I tend to treat them all like dimwitted teenagers!
Hey, I gotta go now. My cab must be waiting downstairs. I will catch you guys later tomorrow and also try to come up with better question. Have a great evening. @StoneyB: Please start cooking now for her. I wish I could be of help in cooking. Bye @Farooq.
