By Tenses, Present tenses

.1) we form the Present Perfect tense with "has/have"+ the past participle. It is used to show:a) actions that have been completed recently.-- Yes, that is one use 2) we form the Past Perfect Tense with "had" + the past participle. It is used to showa) an action that...

Hi Mentors, Tutors and Native English Speakers/writersCan i say: 1) we form the Present Perfect tense with "has/have" 2) we form the Past Perfect Tense with "had" + the past participle. It is used to show: ...

in this example we would probably say, "Once Mary gets around to doing her homework, she will find that it is not too difficult after all." (Don't forget the "s" on "gets.") But in a generalized present tense, you could say "Whenever I get to thinking...

Can it be converted to a present tense format? For example:Once Mary get to doing her homework, she will find that it is not so difficult after all.Thanks.

My subjunctive scouts have returned empty-handed. Consider that a true subjunctive in a main clause is not found in English, certainly not the past subjunctive. It's the simple past indicative tense.CJ

Following is from “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. The situation is that Harry Potter failed in the Quidditch game for the first time. Harry put his face to his knees, his hands gripping his hair. Fred grabbed his shoulder and shook it roughly. ‘C’mon, Harry, you’ve never...

might is usually used in the present tense, though it is also used as the backshift of may in reported speech. It is past in form only.CJ

'in a stretch' to mean 'in a continuous length of time'; while 'at a stretch' sounds strange to me.with a short break for a rest - I used fewer words to have the same meaning and to sound natural.We can also use "save" instead of "with" and "one...

Do you think present tense works in this sentence despite the fact that the realization came to me in the past?

Hi all!I've been giving English conversation lessons to a theology professor for about a year now. He's getting on in the years - a couple years from retirement - and his primary goal has been just to get his spoken English going a little stronger. His mother tongue is French but he's...