Is there something incorrect about the grammatical structure of this sentence: "Although Desi has previously suffered at the hands of Amy as she has falsely accused him of attempting suicide and hurting her, he still loves her nevertheless"?

"Take off" is an example of a phrasal verb. "The man" is an example of noun phrase. How about "blame Nick"? Grammatically speaking, how can we refer to this phrase?

"Take off" is an example of a phrasal verb. "The man" is an example of noun phrase. How about "blame Nick"? Grammatically speaking, how can we refer to this phrase?

Sometimes the rule says that it is mandatory to leave out the hyphen if the compound adjective is placed after the noun. For example: A full-time job ➤ The job is full time. Does this apply to other compound adjectives like "blue-eyed" as in "The girl is blue eyed?" Thank you in advance.

Hello... "James _______ to go swimming since he _______ in the river." ➤ "James has not wanted to go swimming since he fell in the river." Can you please explain why did we use the present perfect in the first clause?

I wonder why there is a switch from the present simple to the present perfect continuous... This is a question I extracted from the textbook with its key answer: Q: Use the connectors of cause and effect in brackets to join these ideas. You may change the order of ideas. You may make one sentence or two. Use appropriate punctuation. Some plants and trees are dying / This summer has been very dry. (since) ➤ Some plants and trees have been dying since this summer has been very dry.

What is the difference between “He has been happy” and “He is happy”? What are the usages of “been”? Most of the sentences that I have seen use “been” to refer to places. And more importantly, what is the difference between "he has been sad" and "he was sad"

What is the difference between “He has been happy” and “He is happy”? What are the usages of “been”? Most of the sentences that I have seen use “been” to refer to places.

We usually use "an hour ago" with the past simple: "I had lunch half an hour ago." However, according to the grammar book that I have, there is an exercise and key answers as well. In the exercise, it is written as follows: What were you doing at these times? (half an hour ago) The key answer: I was watching TV half an hour ago. Why did we use the past continuous? Why not the past simple?