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Hi, Here are some comments. I was happy to get your questions, please write again if I can help you in any way, OK? I would like to know if people in Canada use the present perfect tense and the present perfect progressive tense differently than the Americans. Are Canadians following the...

Hello everybody, I would like to know if people in Canada use the present perfect tense and the present perfect progressive tense differently than the Americans. Are Canadians following the British style instead of following the American style? From Raymond Murphy’s "Grammar...

Hello Latin I think you have learned the grammar of the present perfect tense very correctly. I might say " She lost her passport, and so she will miss her flight ". But your sentence is better, because it clearly states that she has not her passport now . paco

Hi, Not expecting Billy to come by with his friends, Jane has gone out to the grocery store over an hour ago . 'Has gone' is not good in this sentence because you also have the time expression 'over an hour ago'. The present perfect relates the past to now, but the time expression just...

Because grammar writers claim that Present Perfect doesn't stay with past time adverbials: Ex: *He has seen her yesterday. they in their books hide away the past time adverbials that can stay with Present Perfect, such as in the past four years, over the past five weeks , etc. I call them the...

Hi there For example I am talking about a man called John. John had an accident the last year. John has an accident. Which is grammtically correcter? I've read that the Present Perfect is used only for something that has happened in the past and still continuting, for example:-...

Hello Smith I am not kind of stupid to believe Google's majority goes with grammar, but are you sure we always have to use present perfect tense in a "once" clause? Google results Once you arrive in town ...308 hits. Once you've/you have arrived in town...18 hits. paco

Thank you very much ranchhand! I have one more question. RH: You're very welcome, Infinity. Ask as many as you'd like. ================== Infinity wrote: When you report what someone said, for instance, Tuesday, Kate said this: “I have been too busy to do anything for my kids lately,...

The ceiling has been being painted. I know that we use Present Perfect Continuous in passive voice rarely, nevertheless the majority grammar books says that it can be used. When? In what type of sentences? Can i change "I have been painting the ceiling" into passive? RH: While the...

I know that we use Present Perfect Continuous in passive voice rarely, nevertheless the majority grammar books says that it can be used. When? In what type of senstences? Can i change "I have been painting the ceiling" into passive?Thank you in advance by the way, do we say " thank you in...