Crime Prevention and Verb Tenses in English
Crime Prevention Tips and Local News
Recent Burglaries
(AE)a. Since last fall, it has been reported that burglars are targeting the back of chalets and flats. This tactic allows them to avoid being seen from the main road.
New Sneaker Store Opening
(AE)b. A huge sneaker store will soon open in the area where taxis are usually found. A neighbor was informed that they are hiring elevator operators, shop assistants, and restroom cleaners.
Police Checkpoint on C-456
(BE)c. At the petrol station on railway C-456, we were informed that two kilometers ahead, the police will be checking cars and vans. This is to ensure that dangerous hijackers are not hiding inside. Additionally, all suitcase zippers will be opened.
Possible Kidnapping Gang
(BE)d. It could have been a gang of kidnappers, but their usual contact methods are unknown. We wish we knew for sure!
English Grammar: Verb Tenses
- Future Continuous: Someone won't be visiting us. / We won't be being visited.
- Conditional Perfect: Would anybody have visited us? / Would we have been visited?
- Past Perfect Continuous: Someone had been visiting us. / We had been being visited.
- Future Arrangement: Is anybody visiting us? / Are we being visited?
- Future Perfect: Someone will have visited us. / We will have been visited.
- Imminent Future: Is anyone about to visit us? / Are we about to be visited?
English Grammar: Sentences and Reported Speech
- Gary warned Jane not to touch his new paintings.
- We have been bitten by insects for hours.
- Steve has been going out with Jackie for three years.
- Sally asked her boyfriend why he had stayed awake at home waiting for her when she had come back late the day before.
- Jack's boss will give Jack new commands in two hours.
- If Paula had been able to solve those math problems, she wouldn't have failed the test.
- Samuel has just made us a delicious apple jam. / A delicious apple jam has just been made for us by Samuel.
- I wish I hadn't forgotten to buy something to eat. / If I hadn't forgotten to buy something to eat, we wouldn't be very hungry now.
- Fanny, whose best friend is Rachel, was seen going out with Stuart, despite Rachel advising her not to.
- I don't have to wear a tie here. / I needn't wear a tie here.
- In 2012, Clark started collecting butterflies.
- She thinks that I must have loved her because of my usual kind treatment of her.