I already joined a league.- Simple past I've already joined a league.- Present perfect What's the difference between these two sentences because they mean the same thing in my mind.

Hi, I'm asking if this person sent another email to another: Did he send another email to you or Did he sent another email to you? I always say the first but shouldn't it be sent since he's already sent it if the

Hi Alex, A warm welcome from one newby to another! With your question, I would say most people would just use simple past; simply, the window has already been broken. The act of breaking is done. I believe present perfect is an overkill.

I'm not sure, but I think you have made a mess of some of them. (a) When I arrived at the station the train left -- 'Left' is simple past; the train left after she arrived (b) When I arrived at the station, the train was leaving-- ' Was leaving

Well, you've offered 3 choices: simple past, present perfect and past perfect. Actually, all 3 are possible, but simple past is the most common response because the failure to drop in is clearly in the past.

Vincent Teo, (a) is open to objection since the sequence of tenses is neglected here. Besides, it formally suggests that the action of 'coming by' took place against the background of some longer, continuous action - in this sense

If your parent's hadn't got divorced is simple past? and If your parent's hadn't gotten divorced is past perfect?

Simple past . It is also called indefinite past because of 'always'.

Sorry, I don't have time to read through this whole discussion, but 'I have owned 3 restaurants' indicates distinctly that he no longer does so : if he still owned them, he would say ' I own 3 restaurants '. The present perfect merely relates the

The sentence "I have owned three restaurants" is used in indefinite past of the present perfect.  Due to this, we, as the audience, do not rightly know that said subject still owns them. Without more information from sentences preceding