In Past simple^x, Tenses^x

I read on the Internet about the discovery of Saturn's rings over the last four hundred years. I found it interesting and confusing that the verb tense in the article varies between the past simple and the present simple. I would be very happy if you could tell me why. Here are some of the...

Hello Robsee, welcome to English Forums! This is the version I would choose: 'He taught¹ English for two months, when he was living² in Germany and working³ as a journalist.' From the 'basic version', we can see that the purpose of this sentence is to provide two levels of information:...

I have a question about the days of the week. "What did you do this weekend?" If today is Thursday, does "this weekend" refer to the weekend five days ago? Can we ask the same question using "last weekend?" but often I see people use "this weekend" to refer to the coming weekend in the question...

I have a few questions about an article I read: 1. Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. What is "great moment"? 2. There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand than this of the role of custom. "it is"? or "it " should be replaced...

I met the sentence in a grammar book. This sentence is right or wrong please? --> Last week I found a word, wysiwyg, in a dictionary. It "is" not as peculiar as "I had thought". It "comes" from computers. i think it should be "was", "I thought", and "came" respectively. because it goes...

NC: Let me point out, JTT, that the issue at hand was whether "can't" could be used instead of "couldn't", so I have simply gone through the tenses, to identify where it was or not permissible, as well as stressing the varying functions of "just" with respect to the tenses, which teachers often...

Let me point out, JTT, that the issue at hand was whether "can't" could be used instead of "couldn't", so I have simply gone through the tenses, to identify where it was or not permissible, as well as stressing the varying functions of "just" with respect to the tenses, which teachers often fail...

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The structure is: subject + have + object + past...

Hi Andrei, No.2 has the correct word order but there is a mistake in the tense. There are two actions in the past but at different times, so we need to say: When the policemen came to the shop, the thieves had already disappeared. We use the past simple for the more recent event...

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these gives eight tense-aspect combinations, sometimes...