Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Wa"

A: I dont know the context here, but I would say it means “I wasn’t doing it without any reason” or “I wasn’t doing this just for fun”

A: Yes, that sentence is natural. :)

A: It means you weren’t expecting something. It surprised you.

So if I’m walking home, and someone jumps out from a dark alley and grabs my bag, he caught me “entirely by surprise”

Does this help? Let me know!

A: @SONGYI_SONG, 안녕하세요!!👐
I needed to go to the gym ~ 나는 체육관에 가야 했다. & I was supposed to go to the gym. ~ 나는 체육관에 가기로 되어 있었다. ❤

A: @Murilo_Fer
Girl: “... tic tac toe with a real tattoo gun”
Guy: “I’m nervous”
Girl: “I’m nervous too”
Guy: “You’re not even getting the tattoo”
Girl: “I know I just don’t want to like mess it up”

A: There is no difference.

'If I were' is a tense called the subjunctive and is technically correct, but is increasingly uncommon because English speakers get confused by saying 'I were' which is incorrect most of the time. 'I was' is much more common and the subjunctive is not needed in English today, although it has not disappeared completely. It is very common in old texts like Shakespeare. Today, it's very formal or poetic. I'd avoid using the subjunctive most of the time.

However if you do want to understand, the subjunctive expresses possibility, wishes, imagination and orders. It is usually constructed using conjugation as if the subject was 'you', e.g. 'Were he richer he would buy the house, were it possible I would have seen you, I wish I were there'. In this case we are imagining we are rude to the other person, so you can use 'If I were rude'. Subjunctive does not need an 'if' because this is implied by its use so it could also be 'were I rude' (but this is even less common than if I were).

You can use normal conjugation of 'to be' for all the above examples e.g. If I was, if he was. You must have a subject first if you are using normal conjugation ('if it was possible' not 'was it possible' - this is a question).

subjunctive is still sometimes used for commands, obligations or suggestions e.g. we asked that she leave (instead of 'she leaves'), it is necessary that he write the letter (instead of 'he writes'), but it is also formal, and would be more common to say 'we asked her to leave', 'he needs to write the letter'.

It's used most for suggestions e.g. 'I recommend you be there early, I would suggest that he read the book', but there are also ways around this which would be completely normal.

A: I was afraid of that: I thought that would happen ㅜㅜ

Mark is driving back home to eat dinner. (There is one burrito left, he is worried his wife will eat it if she gets home first)

Mark arrives home, and sees his wife is already home.

Mark "Have you had dinner yet?"
Wife "Yeah I just had the burrito in the fridge."
Mark "ahh ㅜㅜ I was afraid of that."

A: I was late because its traffic.

A: Yes! The second verb must be -ed when the first is -ing.

E.g. I was eating cereal when he walked in.

Wendy was cleaning the house when her Sister went to school.

The elephant was drinking water when the lion pounced on its back.

A: I was born in 1990.
I was born 2 years earlier than him.

A: "Away with my girlfriend" means you were out of town with her.
"With my girlfriend" just means you were together.

A:

I was studying English for about three years, but I was never accomplishing much, because I would give up after a couple of months. = grammatically correct
I was studying English for like three years and I was never getting that good because I would give up after a couple months. = informal and casual.

For correct grammar you should not use “like” as an adverb (use about).

A: @kk24acb
Some is used with both countable and uncountable nouns:

Countable Nouns - 'Some people in my school like Jazz.'
Uncountable Nouns - 'There was some snow here last winter.'

Positive sentences

Some is used in positive sentences:

'I have some friends.'
'We bought some coffee.'

Offering

We use some in questions when we expect the answer to be 'yes' or when we are offering something, otherwise, we use any:

'Would you like some milk?

Requests

Some is also used in questions when we are making a request:
"Can I borrow some money?

A: There isn’t really a difference in meaning but when referring to a team, you would say “in the team” you would say “on the team”. In the team is not grammatically correct however it is understandable and it wouldn’t be much of an issue if you used it. Hope this helps!

A: The first sentence sounds unnatural. It should be `I was calling my mom'. Both of these sentences would probably only make sense if someone interrupted you and asked what you were doing. The first implying that she perhaps didn't pick up yet.

A: A lot of natives wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. So, don’t worry about that too much, but if you want to be technically correct (like for a class,maybe) then use were.

A: Oh yeah it is grammatically correct, and it does sound natural. Good job! :)

A:
​I was about to take the bus but I noticed that I didn't have my bus pass/ money to pay!

A: When I was younger, I was a disorderly student.

A: maybe it is better to say "then i will have many friends" since the expression "at that time" indicates past

A: "i was thought" is the only mistake but it could be more natural:
I thought eventually it would've happened, but to think he'd really be recruited by a darkness guild

A: 少し間違っています。

I was told to look after her for a while.

A: I’ve been craving it

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A: Totally easy to understand, but there are a couple of things to consider. First of all – two separate ideas, means that you need to consider using punctuation.

I was supposed to go shopping, but I drove to my hometown.

Second, The second idea is very jarring when placed next to the first one. To show the listener that they understand this discrepancy, most native speakers would say –

– but I drove to my hometown instead