In Regards^x, Past perfect^x

It is an interesting question. Speaker B says "I just found this website." *He found the website recently. In British English you may also say «I have just found this website». "I’ve not looked at it much yet." *He expects to look at it again, therefore he uses the present perfect. The...

Have has many meanings as a transitive verb and two usages as a verbal auxiliary. Transitive verb: -I have a car. -He had three sons. -He had his opponent cornered. -I have a letter to write. He had a concert to conduct.

Seems... interpretations of "for-time adverbials" depend also on their position in sentence. (Can I ask you, if you don't mind: Can we exclude the possibility of if it's combined with present or past perfect forms..? My question is vague, so I'll be glad if you would give me your first...

Hello Jack If we suppose that the Sony LCD is a special offer – $300! reduced from $350! – then: 1. I would save $50 if I hadn't bought that LCD back then. This conflates two thoughts: 1a. I would save $50 if I bought that LCD now, because it's reduced from $350. 1b. But I can't buy that...

I am choosing an apple because someone has already eaten all the pears. I chose an apple because someone had already eaten all the pears. *I had chosen an apple because someone had had already eaten all the pears. I had chosen an apple because someone had already eaten all the pears, and...

Hi MH First of all, I would like to wish you and your colleagues at EnglishForums.com a merry merry X'mas and a happy New Year. Second of all, I need your help again. Please take a look at the following letter: On December 21, while conducting a tour of the job site, we observed the following...

Hi MrP. The corrected proofs were sent. Hope they’ll correct all that is needed. Back to the paper. I have read it like five times so as to note the final doubts. There are quite a lot; hope this is ok with you. 1) “For the Skeptic does not consider that the good relative to each person...

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...

Hello, Dave would + base form of verb = simple conditional would + have + past participle = perfect conditional I don't know those by any other names, but of course it is probable that there may be authors who may give those different names. In my mother tongue, the "conditional" used to be...