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You may be driving yourself crazy trying to make every sentence with a present perfect tense fit into one those three categories! I have written six letters this morning. This means that during the morning you finished the task of writing six letters. You are not still writing the...

I am not good at present perfect tense.The usages of this tense is: 1.Actions which started in the past and are still continuing 2.Actions which happened at some unknown time/unspecific time/unfinished time in the past,which means it's important to say that something happened (or didn't...

1. Brenda left. That's a simple past tense. If anything happened BEFORE that time, you would then use the past perfect. No need for it here. 2. You FOUND out. That already implies the past. Any action taking place BEFORE the time you found out will make use of the past perfect. In this...

Hello, excuse me. It shouhd have been: My grammar book says PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE is usual with all verbs in negative sentences. I have written PP continuous which was an accident. I try to translate exactly what this book says (It´s a Czech book for language schools - Angličtina pro...

Hi! (A Practical English Grammar - Thomson, Marinet): An action which began in the past and is still continuing or has only just finished can, with certain verbs, be expressed by either the present perfect simple or the present perfect continuous. Verbs which can be used in this way include:...

I think the present, past, and present perfect tenses are the most frequently used. For a good introduction to verbs and tenses, see Mary Ansell's English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html.

Thanks Goldmund, OH dear.. It is a long time since I did English grammar at school. My answers are all from memory, I am not looking anything up, (as is patently obvious). Perhaps I should They say you forget old stuff to make room for the new, obviously I have forgotten A LOT!! OK, so I...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in...

Passive Voice Gerunds & Infinitives Irregular VerbsPresent Perfect TensePhrasal VerbsReported SpeechVerb to be