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Hi everybody I was chatting with a scottish friend last week and he was telling me about a trip to London he was planning so I asked him if he had already bought the plane tickets The thing is I wasn t sure if the tense I used to formulate the question was correct My question was Did you buy the...

BeginStudent wrote The answers from n2g 100 correct if yes i have question in number two sentence When have they told you why did you changed it to present prefect continuous Hi MosheYes all of New2grammar s answers are 100 correct New2grammar correctly used the simple past tense not the present...

Sorry sentence 7 needs the same sort of change as sentence 5 Sentence 2 has two correct options 1 Two men were arrested yesterday OK 2 The garage had been built before we moved in OK The passive form of the simple past tense was built would also be OK because the order of the two past events is...

Hi Why it had to be a past perfect here Could it be something else like a present perfect tense They continued playing until all the girls had called bingo Past Perfect stresses the sequence of events However until also makes the sequence clear so you could just use Simple Past tense here ie...

Thanks for the feedback Tanit 171 Women were not ready to encounter those forms of difficulties they are actually facing now 187 Ok They were not ready to encounter the difficulties They are facing them now But are they ready now Your sentence tell nothing about that Right It only says they were...

Hi When I was as old as seventeen I ve sat up late at night with my tongue hanging out of my mouth practising copperplate by the little oil lamp on the bedroom table Hello everyone In the above sentence why was there a switch from the past tense was to the present have I I have sat is not Present...

Thanks for your reply And i have taken this sentence from one site If the sentence having in the last year it requires only PRESENT PERFECT If the sentence having last year it requires PAST TENSE

You need a course to understand them exactly However we don t give lessons here Search past tense and the present perfect tense on the search box right above In your examples past tense sounds grammatical to me because last year gives us a big clue that everything happened in the past and has no...

Hello Anon Sometimes you need the past tense The present perfect won t work in every situation Sometimes you need the past perfect too For example Pretend you want to describe a situation in which you went to a party hoping to see someone That person was at the party but left before you arrived...

Hi I am a Debutor in english i am learning englishi was learn a Grammar of english and i have understood that we can use the present and a futur for speaking and i did t need a Past to speak because we can use the present perfect to talk about experience from the past and we can use the present...