What is the difference between "were" and "have been", and are these sentences gramatically correct? 1) some of the best known writers of detective fiction in the twentieth century were women.

Which of the following is correct ? Who were these buildings designed by? Or Who was these buildings designed by? Does were/was refer to "these buildings" or "who"?

If you were can also imply that you had planned to do it. "If I were going to go home in an hour, would you come?" does not describe an unlikely or impossible scenario.

3 " The minutes of the Stockholders Meeting were presented and discussed" is the correct sentence. The subject 'minutes ' is plural, and it should take a plural verb (were). Minutes, also known as …

If we were to meet the Paris climate goals, the use of fossil-based materials must be quickly reduced and replaced with renewable materials. I have seen usage of both "if we are to" and "if we were to", …

But I cannot rule out the possibility that Indian English—and specifically Indian Political English—has evolved this usage of were to precisely in order to express firmness and caution in the same …

2: We were still seeing each other a couple of times a month The only difference is that the reference/relevance/narrative time has subtly altered. In both versions the meetings being described …

The usage of something like Were you vs. Weren't you for an example: You were going to talk to Michael, (were you/weren't you)? In the sentence above, which makes sense grammatically? And if b...

Neither he nor his friends were/was present at the party? Which would come here?

3 I'm in the military, and, especially when marching, someone in charge will use the term "as you were" to one that made a mistake, to order them to assume the state they were in before the mistake. …