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Tanglish wrote Hi all I can easily indentified the present past future tenses but I don t know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses Thanks I don t understand exactly what you mean Here is some basics...

Diamondrg wrote Can it be regarded as a deduction an element which the present perfect simple lacks Hi yes I would say so It s still a problem for me and many other learners to understand how to use the present perfect continuous but I would say it s strongly related to the present situation it...

Present perfect tense since Anon past simple at on yesterday day

Verb swim Swam past simple tense Refers to actions events in past time She swam a kilometre yesterday No connection with present time Swum past participle Used to form the pefect tense with auxiliary verb have have has had past participle perfect tense Note the time tense is given by the...

Is 1 AmE while 2 is BrE Yes and no Given the same situation a past simple is more likely to be generated by a speaker of AmE while a present perfect is more likely to be generated by a speaker of BrE But the two tenses don t mean exactly the same thing and neither of the two speakers claim that...

Hi CliveIt s high time you learnt Polish But seriously my English isn t very good so it was easier for me to write it in Polish Generally it can be said that If you give the date you use Past SimpleIf things happened in the past but you don t know exactly when or it doesn t make any difference...

Spocik wrote The present perfect is used when the time is not specific I have seen that movie already We don t know when Sam sobie odpowiedziales Gdy podaje się dokladna date stosujemy czas przeszly prosty Past simple Jesli zdarzenie nastapilo w przeszlosci ale nie wiadomo dokladnie kiedy lub...

CalifJim wrote A newspaper might announce this as Professor Johnson has recently discovered a new phenomenon called hyperionization which he claims will be of invaluable use to mankind Note that a similar set of criteria is used to report deaths We don t say Shakespeare has died or Beethoven has...

171 I personally feel that have since should be followed by past tense because the event in the past acts as a starting reference point for have 187 Past Simple will work always Present Perfect only in a few cases like 171 It has been a long time since I haven t had a serious run there 187

I guess have written can be ok Like It was the last time I have written an article EDIT maybe it s being the last time is considered as a sort of connetion with the present thus making Present Perfect fit By the way a google search returned equal numbers of entries of 1 it has been a while since...