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To Abbie You are probably right because I don t know much about present perfect progressive tense However I would like to let you know that when translated into foreign not related to Latin languages Did you see and Have you seen are EXACTLY the same I still don t see the grammatical difference...

Hello Roro I agree with you The present perfect tense belongs to present tense It means The subject holds now the result of a thing that happened or they did at an indefinite past time paco

This morning I got a question from a teacher who is now teaching present perfect tense in a high school English class What he asked me is What is I have eaten lunch most likely to mean in the case no context is given Does it mean I finished eating lunch just now or I ate lunch sometime in the...

Hello CJ Thank you for the great answer The idea is semantically the present perfect simply refers to some time in the past but pragmatically the distance in the past is dependent on the specifics of the situation 1 Cases where a greater amount of time before the present moment is under...

Hello guys This morning I got a question from a teacher who is now teaching present perfect tense in a high school English class What he asked me is What is I have eaten lunch most likely to mean in the case no context is given Does it mean I finished eating lunch just now or I ate lunch sometime...

Hi mshahri I think that you can t change tenses in 1 and 4 because there is a time expression starting with for ex You can say I live in Helsinki but I cannot say I live in Helsinki for five years wrong You would have to say I have lived or have been living in Helsinki for 5 years When it comes...

1 You can ring the changes on the existing course material The above is on a school s language course Now they have made some changes I saw it in the prospectus So I could write the following 2 You have rang the changes on the existing course material Is the second sentence fine I know the words...

Hello Roro 1 He is now sleeping deeply because he has worked for all day long 2 He is now sleeping deeply because he has been working for all day long Huum I still prefer 1 because I d like to avoid the logical contradiction As for the Einstein matter first of all let me consider past tense...

Hello Roro As you know I m an English learner and I myself am not so confident about between the simple tense and the progressive tense So please use the following as something like junk food for your thought until native speakers give you more decisive answers Q 1 I think you should change the...

Rule Modal verbs and must is one of them cannot be followed by a past tense form To express past tense after a modal add have and the past participle This is not truly a present perfect but a modal perfect In the case of the modal perfect construction the difference between simple past and...