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Hi When I use have do I put ed on kill Yes use ed with a regular verb What you are talking about is how to form the Present Perfect tense When I look at your sentences below I can see that you need to review the Present Perfect and the Past Perfect in your grammar book I would have killed the...

Hi I have purchased in 2005 I had purchased in 2005 What is the difference in meaning between these two sentences or which one is wrong For a start both sentences require an object What did you purchase Generally speaking the perfect tenses are used without a specific time reference like in 2005...

2CalifJim What about 700 examples of been knowing 2Goodman The verb to know works perfectly well with the Perfect Continuous Progressive Tense Yes it is FORBIDDEN to be used in this tense but that doesn t mean it does not work It is not argued that the rule that forbids using the stative verbs in...

Were is also correct because there is no real confusion about the order of the past events Says is common journalistic historical present narrative but I don t like it here because it is inserted between two past tenses very sloppy I suppose that if you keep it you could use present perfect or...

Hi I think I was taught by CalifJim that a present perfect is not used when something that denotes a definite time frame is involved like yesterday and during lunch time if I learned it correctly Can you give me some more examples of those that will bring about the conditions that would make the...

quote user Anonymous I think a past continuous is used to denote an action that has been continuing to the moment of speaking quote False It is the present perfect that sometimes connotes this sort of action quote user Anonymous I even think a present perfect contiuous is good too Can you tell...

Hi Normally I think a past continuous is used to denote an action that has been continuing to the moment of speaking He was making a noise when the teacher walked in But this element of continuing upto a moment seems to be missing here but they look to be correct Am I missing some thing Can you...

quote user YSchneider Many people from US companys often aswer me in the present perfect like Thank you I ve received your e mail OR Yves I ve spoken to my boss and he or Yves I ve forwarded your mail to our finance department and it will be processed soon Am I wrong or would you use simple past...

I ve run into the following questionwhen you received a notice of the Court ruling say from the 9th Appellate Court say on September 24 so two days from now and you are reporting itto your friend Under this circumstance which one of following sentences is correct1 I have received a court ruling...

Thank you again I should have caught that mistake error earlier Would this make sense to you that is putting two events in present perfect tenses as I said before Either the site is offline or an unhandled error has occurred We have logged the error We apologize for the inconvenience