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Please answer the following questions. 1. Is this the correct use of a semicolon? I don't think the clause after the semicolon can stand on its own. When did you last hear about it? Some said never; others said not since they left home. 2. Why is it have to be past perfect? Is that...

I have 2 sentences: Think what you have done in the past. In the past he has been a bricklayer, and now he's a farmer. Is it OK to use simple past tense instead of present perfect tense? Like "Think what you did in the past." or "In the past he was a bricklayer, and now he's a...

Hi, i do not quite understand. You said that much depends on the context, yet both examples you gave contain only the past tense. Am I to take it that the past tense is always used to keep in concordance with "knew"? When you say 'I knew that . . .', you are talking of the past so it's...

Thanks a lot. You changed the second one, what I meant was something like this: CalifJim wrote: Here's what you want. I haven't slept in two days. I look like I've been beaten up. After not sleeping for two days, I looked like I'd been beaten up. If I don't sleep for two...

Hi, why is there a 'ed" at the end of "punish" if the sentence seem to be in the future because of the word "if" doesn't sount like past tense in this sentence. If I break the law I should be punished. Let's remove the modal 'should' and simply say If I break the I will be punished. I...

Hi, So I think the sentence is simple present tense. It's simple past tense. So If I change it for present perfect, it will become "You haven't let me know about the address". Yes. I wonder if the verb 'tell (told)' would reflect your meaning better than 'let me know about'? ...

I breezed through a bunch of Google pages on "until recently" and found that most of them used past tense, almost as many used present perfect, but not as many, and a few used past perfect. I didn't see any that used progressive tenses, but I think that was just coincidence, and I didn't see...

1-- Your grammar is not complete; present perfect serves other purposes than 'something happened or never happened before now or some time in the past'-- which sounds to me more like a definition of the simple past tense. Present perfect by definition includes an action/condition continuing from...

... in a sentence where the point of view is clearly "present" Actually, the use of past perfect establishes a past point of view. It might have been a little unusual to see this in initial position in an isolated clause, but it works here because the past tense ( passed away ) follows and...

1. We usually use present continuous tense refers to something happening right at this moment. Here are two sentences from my grammar book: A few artists live in town today. A few artists are living in town today. What does the second sentence mean here? I think the first one is...