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Q: Did you eat the cake? A: I have eaten the cake already. The question above is in Simple past tense and the answer is in Present perfect tense. Should the answer be in Present perfect tense or in Simple past tense?

Question 1: Q: Did you eat the cake ? A: I have eaten the cake already. *******I wish to know if the question posted is in ' simple past tense', can my answer be in ' present perfect tense'? Question 2: Q:Did you eat the cake? A:Yes,I already ate it. *******OR should it be question in...

Present perfect or past simple?Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense?? I have always been (always/be) interested in the history of the cinema Last year, I..... (act) in several school plays That play........(just/open).Shall we go and see it? How many times ....... (you/watch) the...

There is more than one difference between the simple past and the present perfect. The simplest difference is the grammatical difference that the simple past can be used with expressions which signify a definite, particular time in the past. I wrote a letter yesterday. I wrote a letter at 7...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got". ...

Sharad, Sharad! You are getting yourself tangled up here! Let's see how we can get you untangled. He has had to live or die situations. He had had to live or die situations. He had have to live or die situations. None of these is exactly right. You want to include the idea of...

All four sentences about the polio shots are correct! Here's where you are getting off the track: "had" by itself does not indicate the Past Perfect tense. It indicates the Past Perfect tense when it is followed by a past participle! Present, Past, Present Perfect, Past Perfect of...

Sequence of tenses. The general trend is to use "present oriented tenses" together in the same sentence, and "past oriented tenses" together in the same sentence, but there are many cases that don't follow the trend. Present oriented tenses: present perfect ... present ... future (of the...

Dear redkitty, Just a small request before we begin. Please use proper capitalization. It makes reading and answering questions a lot easier. Strangely enough, our brains recognize shapes as well as individual letters. So we can process properly written text easier and faster. Also, cant...

I am studying a english course but iam slightly still confused with my question that i have been asked. State as many USAGES as possible of the present tenses eg present simple.present contiunous,present perfect etc. If you could pls provide me with 1 eg that would help me on the right...