- future tense - Will be vs Will have been - English Language . . .
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- prepositions - Is it in on or at the wedding? - English Language . . .
For musical concerts, a member of the audience would say, "I'm at the concert " A performing musician could say she was in the concert: "I'll be in the concert tonight; I play guitar for the opening band " As above, it is never correct to say "on the concert" There's also a special idiom, "in concert," used to indicate that a person is performing:
- I was looking forward ____ at the new restaurant, but it was closed
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- word choice - Should I use tickets of, for or to a concert . . .
"I have two tickets to a concert" is not correct, either You can have two tickets to go to a concert, but not two tickets to a concert You have this Beatles' song, "Ticket to ride", which can be confusing, but in that case, it's the verb "to ride", not a noun If it were a noun, you should use "Ticket for a ride" –
- articles - go to a concert vs go to the concert - English Language . . .
a means an unspecified concert, and the means a specific concert This isn't exactly the same as "has been mentioned before" I would probably not say "the concert", because means a specific concert, and B probably would not understand what concert we were talking about without more context You might find these helpful: Using Articles and A vs
- pronouns - Why is the answer it -- gt; Mr. Akagi was unable to buy . . .
It is a combination of "it" and "was" - it is referring to the concert which is a singular item "The concert, it was sold out" Was is used when the item it's being referred to is singular whereas were is used when something is plural "The tickets, they were sold out" if there had been more than one concert then you could also use they were
- Tense for events that went on over the same period of past time
The assumption is that I was cleaning house at the same time as the concert was being held in the rain It was a sunny day, so I did the house keeping quickly and went to the open air concert Here the assumption would be that both events happened but not at the same time Cleaning, then concert The same comments apply to the past continuous
- Should this sentence take on stage or onstage?
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