By Simple present, Past perfect

Miriam, your explanations were really great, thank you very much! This turns out to be a quite interesting thread... TS, I can understand your problems with the correct usage, especially the ones you mentioned in your last few postings. You've mentioned a very interesting aspect here, one that...

>We told Sharon that her comments didn't really relate to the key issues at hand. is correct. I think, the direct speech sentence is in simple present: "Your comments don't relate to the key issues." When the "introduction"part of a sentence in indirect speech is in a past tense form (here:...

run, ran, run she runs the whole way everyday . ( simple present ) she ran the whole way yesterday. ( simple past ) she had run the whole way ..... ( past perfect )

You certainly meant which tense is used in each sentence?! 1. lives -> Simple Present ---> for generally known facts, truths; habits 2. is studying -> Present Progressive ---> expresses actions that happen just right now in this moment 3. lived -> Simple Past ---> for any action that happened...

As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present participle d)...