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Would you like something to drink, Sir?

( it is a formal question)
Would you mind opening the gate, please? ( ''mind '' doesn't take infinitive complements).
When Simon comes back tonight, he will do the washing up. ( after ''when'' we never use Future
Simple Tense, but Present Simple)
Despite being the better team, we lost the match. ( ''Despite '' doesn't use ''of''. In spite does.)
I am fed up with doing this exercise. ( after ''fed up''we use the preposition ''with'' and the verb plus
ing)
I have had my car since 2009. ( Present Perfect shows an action that started/ begun in the past and
continue in the present). We don' say ''I am having my car'' because it is not about this present
moment, right now.
Carla suggested to me to go to university.

It's time we learnt, even if we refer to the present moment. We don't say ''It's time we
go home,but ''It's time we went home''. The same goes with ''It's high time.

we always say: ''I had my hair cut yesterday''. So, the right answer is Where have you cut it?

At 70 it is ''I don't know where went he last night. We don't have a question, so we cannot use this
form ''did he go''.

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