In Tenses^x, Present perfect^x

Hi,Whenever an error occurs in this forum, something like below seems to come up. I wonder why one sentence has a past tense and another has a present perfect tense. What could be the reason? If both are relevant, will it not be reasonable/correct to put both in present perfect? The same dilemma...

That's my point exactly. The option of another tense, or two, automatically changes the context of the sentence, which isn't necessarily pointed out on the test item.

Hi Zerox,You can't use there present perfect, because it's not grammatically correct. To use this tense, you'd have to say ...I've been working here for 10 years, or something like that. In present perfect, if you want to express the time duration which continues to the present...

Hi Philip,That sentence(#3) is a typical example of sequence of tenses. The speaker is referring here to an event which happened before, in the past (he finally met that girl). And in addition, he'd been hearing about her before they met each other. In the other words, that event happened...

1. Do you think the past perfect tense is correct? I feel just a past tense is correct. I don't see a reason for the need for the past perfect tense. I thought what follows usually after a present perfect is a past tense, not a past perfect.It has never played put the way I had intended.2. I...

"Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?"Hi againmy comment about the passive referred to "are being followed": you are following > present continuous, active you are being followed > present continuous, passiveDoes this help?

Be careful, sometimes the verb "have" and the past participle (or "had" and the past participle, if we are talking about the past perfect) are not adjacent, so you cannot make your choices simply by simply looking at their proximity! All of the following sentences, for...

Great, thank you.So am I right in thinking that "I have called Frank" would be the present perfect tense?

Hi,Sure it fits, why not? "What are you doing?"are is the present tense of the verb "to be" (second person, singular)doing is the -ing form of "to do" (which here acts as the main verb)When you have a verb in its continuous form, the tense is given by the verb...

I agree with those who said it depends on the context, and they might be interchangeable, depending on what you have in mind.If me and my sweetheart are about to leave, I might ask "Did you lock the door?" or "Have you locked the door?", but if we were already on the road I...