幫我睇睇grammar

Question

In the past, I thought that communication is (唔知用is定was) equal to talking. Employees talk (用present tense 定past tense) to their managers or colleagues simply by talking.

Answer 1

你要千萬記得，英文有一個重要的原則，就是時式要一致（sequence of tense），所以你既然講明，In the past, I thought that.....，這句話以後，所有時式都要用過去式，或者過去完成式；除非，之後所講的事情是永恆不變的定理。因著這個原則，你的句子應改為

In the past, I thought that communication WAS equal to(或者用equalled to，因為equal 其實是可以用作動詞) talking.

而第二句，首先我想弄清楚，究竟這一句是另一句，或者是連於之前的一句；即是說，究竟以下的一句是你之前的想法(I thought that ....)，或者是另外現在的想法，若是以前的想法，也要用過去式
”employees talked to ......”，但要記得equal to talking之後不要用full stop，要用comma；若是另外的想法，則這句少了一些時間性的容形詞，如nowadays, now或者其他，所以很難說用甚麼時式。如用nowadays就應用present tense

Employees talk(應該不用talk 而是communicate，這才產生句子意思） to their managers or colleagues simply by talking.

但若這句的時間性是then，那麼就要用過去式
Employees commnicated to their managers or colleagues simply by talking then.

Answer 2

You might as well say in this way :

I used to believe that communication simply meant talking with people, such as that ( the communication ) within a ( large ) organization.
After all these years, I now realize ( find / learn ) that ...........( go on with your essay )....


Hope this might help.