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Grammar Geek wrote: Hi Pastsimple - Ironically, you should have used the simple past "I used this phrase." The combination of "today" and what was probably a single use makes simple past appropropriate. If you in fact did say it several times today and were planning on saying it again,...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry...

In his 'English Grammar in Use' Raymond Murphy says: (1) Ann's clothes are covered in paint. She has been painting the ceiling. "Has been painting is the present perfect continuous. We are interested in the activity. It does not matter whether something has been finished or not. In this...

Th present perfect continuous: 1-Affirmative of it: He has been eating since noon. (That means up to now,doesn't it?.) 2 - Negative of it: He has not (hasn't) been eating since noon. (Is it correct sentences?.) 3- Interrogative of it: I don't know what is the Interrogative...

Hi all, This is my last post about this point of grammar. You know, in all my grammar books, people say: Subject + would have liked to + infinitive or noun or pronoun. (not perfect infinitive ) But I always see the sentences such as: I'd have liked to have gone there. (1) So ,...

<And when exactly is "have" supposed to have been "purely possessive"? We can find abstract usage of "have" in OE; and the use of "have" in the present perfect was well established by ME. > According to most scholars*, in OE, general use of have had the meaning of pure possession, with...

there are a few differences.In the past tense,we mention the events which are finished but in the present perfect tense the activities are still going on now and maybe it will go on in the futere.Also,for definite time,past tense is better,for unstated time present perfect is better. ı know...

The best way is to consul a grammar book. Like MH said, you could find threads here. The simple past indicates that an activity or situations began and ended at a particular time in the past.

Kooyeen wrote: I was told to use the present or past perfect in those situations, but I often find the present continuous (even in newspapers). Kim O'Donnel: This is the first time I'm hearing a negative report. He is surprised. And he says that hearing reports is happening...

Murphy's is a good book. Do the exercises first. What he wants to teach you here is a specific case when present perfect is used. In the lesson we aer concernign this usage of the present perfect This is the first time I've tried this. This is the second time I've tried this. This...