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I totally agree with Kooyen about The rule you usually find is actually no present perfect with a specific point in time after GG recently corrected my thinking that the same rule applied to past perfect lt At 7pm gt I have read the paper this morning Wrong I had read the paper that morning...

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quote user Anonymous How about this The World Court today threw out the conviction of a minor and ordered his immediate release The High Court had on July 1 2003 found the boy then aged 12 guilty of murdering the 11 year old girl at her house in Sentul Kuala Lumpur by stabbing her 20 times with...

Hi British troops had been based in Basra city since the Iraq war began in 2003 The country handed over security control to Iraqis late last year but still maintains a presence in Basra province Shouldn t it be has instead of had since the troops are still stationed in Basra The past perfect...

hi dear Using Had has is grammatical incorrect as it denotes the past perpect So this is better to use had had as past perfect and have has had as present perfect in case

I would change it to had to be consistent It had been some time since I had but having said that I have no problem with the present perfect To me the use of present perfect here jumps to present time I still prefer to use past perfect Just my two cents

Hi I was trying to find the explanations in my manual but couldn t find anything I know that when we say It s my first time then I should use the present perfect It s the first time I have flown by plane when I say It was my first time then I should use the past perfect It was the first time I...

English is pretty relaxed when it comes to past events and we often use the past indefinite where the past imperfect past perfect or present perfect might be grammatically preferable but because we are all used to hearing it we don t find it confusing Are the first sentences what you said...

quote user New2grammar Won t that be confusing to the reader since you use past tense to describe both events quote If everyone was really careful to always use the grammatically correct tense then using the wrong one might be pretty confusing but that s not the case English is pretty relaxed...

Well first of all I said that since would be better Second note that it s PAST perfect not present perfect We had had a big lunch at 12 30 so I wasn t ready for birthday cake at 2 We had been to his house only yesterday apparently only shortly before the fire broke out I guess that they are...