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present tense - now I decide, now I decided, now I have decided . . . As I understand it, Past Simple (the second sentence) is possible here only as the simplest version of Present Perfect (the third sentence), isn't it? But why is Present Perfect more common here than Present Simple?
Is from simple to complex grammatically correct 'From' and 'to' can be used with quite a range of words, normally describing some sort of scale (one extreme to another for example) Consider 'from left to right' or 'from front to back' Similarly to your example, 'from easy to hard' is also fine So yes, 'from simple to complex' is correct
How do you say 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 in words? It's: one hundred quintillion or: a hundred quintillion The words for very large numbers If you're wondering how to form other huge numbers like this, here's the pattern: A thousand thousands is a million: 1,000,000 A thousand millions is a billion: 1,000,000,000 A thousand billions is a trillion: 1,000,000,000,000 A thousand trillions is a quadrillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000 A thousand
prepositions - explain this vs explain about this - English . . . Yes, the sentence is much more fluent without the about The simplest answer is "because that's not how we generally speak in English"; you can see how much more common explain this is than explain about this is It is not impossible to use explain with about, but explain usually takes a direct object, which is the thing that you are explaining "explain about X" carries a sense of "to speak
Is of him or for him followed by the infinitive? I'll explain this more below, but first, here are some examples of the first and simplest case: It was huge for him to score this win (he is not huge) It was dangerous for him to climb up there (he is not dangerous) The second case is somewhat more complex Sometimes we use for you to emphasize the circumstances of the person in question
past simple - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Are there any shades of meaning between the use of the past continuous, present simple and past simple in the following sentences? He was saying that he is going to leave soon He says that
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange This is probably what you want and is the simplest form 2 I was trying to run the computer program, but it didn't work The implication here is that you tried running it over a period of time (maybe you made several attempts) and then stopped, or you tried and you were interrupted (you tried and it crashed)