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Hi, i saw this at korean forum some one who asked it on what different between different and another which one is a correct sentence? i find different job Simple present tense is not good in either of these examples. You might say 'I am finding a different job, I am going to find a...

CalifJim wrote: I verified the Google results on I wish I had have and I wish I have had , and I must say that I was astonished. In standard English have had is impossible because no simple present or present perfect form ever occurs (correctly) after wish, not even the present tense...

I verified the Google results on I wish I had have and I wish I have had , and I must say that I was astonished. In standard English the only possibilities after I wish (that) (with subject pronoun or noun) are would (with the bare infinitive), could (with the bare infinitive), had (with...

So, as long as there is something discovered in the past and refered to a permanent truth, it still can be used with simple present tense. This reminds me of another sentence I found in my textbook regarding "indirect speech". Please see the following sentence. He said he will come on the...

Is it right that if you start a sentence in the past tense, stay in that tense UNLESS you find it necessary to use a BUT or HOWEVER, which WOULD change the whole emphasis of the sentence from that point on and give you the freedom to do whatever you wish. SO i give an example here : She said she...

My contribution (taken from HERE ): If the reporting verb is simple present, present perfect, or future, the noun clause verb is not changed. If the reported sentence deals with a fact or general truth , the present tense is (can be) retained. She said that the moon causes the tides. PS: Good...

When you have someone do something, you arrange for them to do it. If this arrangement happens generally, always, as a rule, habitually, as a matter of normal practice, then the simple present tense is used. I I had them do this. CJ

The difference is the same as the difference between the simple present and the progressive tense in almost any context. The simple present tense is used to express the present state of affairs where "present" means over a fairly long period of time including the present. It is used to...

Hi Jacek, " On some of the issues over which he has tangled with the military brass, Rumsfeld has been right. The Pentagon is a hidebound place, and it has needed the "transformation" ethic Rumsfeld brought to his job."" I'd like you to explain me why the author had used at the underlined...

If the time adverbial clause referes to somthing that will happen or exists in the future, you use the simple present tense , not a future tense. You have stated a very important rule here: Look before you leap. (not before you will leap ) He is going to the bank before he has...