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Please help me could u tell me what these are I wrote that I think they might be but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time E g 1 We visited Spain last year Past...

I think I found some mistakes Here 2 2 present Simple 4 I am not sure of what you wrote there so future simple 5 past Simple 4 2 past perfect 5 She had had that dog since she was ten maybe I m wrong but it seems to me that She has had that dog since she had been ten is better 6 past simple 7...

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time E g 1 We visited Spain last year Past simple 2 The shop on the corner is open every Sunday Past simple 3 I wrote a letter last...

The most natural are 1a 2a 3b 4a 5a 2b is incorrect An adverbial indicating a point in time when I was cutting onions is incompatible with the perfect aspect while I was cutting onions is more idiomatic but also impossible in this sentence With the past tense Example 1 adverbials of duration all...

Hey Blitz 1 are Amber and Joe going is correct 2 your son is not attending college since last two months incorrect your son has not been attending college for two months now is ok but has not attended would be better your son has not been attending college for the past two months ok but again has...

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow The above sentence uses what is called causative form We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves but have arranged someone else to do it for us The structure is subject have object past participle Note that have must...

No He has been pleading with someone for something is not a passive sentence It is a sentence of present perfect progressive tense It is used to emphasize the action that started in the past is still now continuing paco

Technically there are two tenses Present or Non Past and Past There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs simple vs perfect and simple vs progressive Simple Perfect Progressive and Perfect Progressive Some authors call the perfect non perfect distinction phase Combining these gives eight...

Activities and periodic action particularly in one of the perfect tenses including perfect progressives go better with lately Punctual events go better with recently In fact in a sort of impressionistic way lately is imperfective and recently is perfective Hence lately usually means within the...

Hello Blitz Yes I should probably qualify what I said before the PS is used in contexts where you don t want to imply a connection to the present the PP where you do So Yesterday I rode my bike across the field PS You only want to talk about yesterday I ve ridden my bike to work every day this...