By Auxiliaries, American English

1. Use of present perfect tense and simple past tense Speakers of American English generally use the present perfect tense (have/has + past participle) far less than speakers of British English. In spoken American English it is very common to use the simple past tense as an alternative in...

Hi, Miriam! Thanks so much for your reply. Of course I'm still interested! 1. Sometimes when examples are given, certain forms begin to sound more acceptable. Strangely enough, only your example with "wish" still seems weird to me! The other two don't really sound that formal to me. I can...

Thank you again for your quoting. I want to learn English and I could not often find helping people like you. I had some problems with my computer (I'll never understand computers). Well, if you don't mind I've got some questions. -don't they?- for example at the end of a sentence has the same...