By Grammar, Simple present

"Lemon and Jack have learned some grammar" - it was just an example of how you could use the simple present perfect, Lemon. Of course you can say "They learned some grammar at school", for example, using the simple past. We use simple past to express something which happened in the past, and is...

Simple present perfect: e.g. I have worked have I worked? I have not worked 1. We use this to say that something in the past is connected with the present: "Lemon and Jack have learned some grammar" - They learned it in the past, but still know it NOW. "The company has opened a...

Hi, Ali. This is a really nice essay, and I know exactly what you mean about perfumes! You need a little atTention to your grammar, word order and tenses, so let's try and help out. You have used the present continuous for a lot. (the 'ing' form). When we write a story, it is usual to use the...

To those who still think of 'Nietzche': "Grammar of Madness" I know what it means, But, not what the meaning of it means There are points to get There are points to miss So, here, round I go in an eternal circle Without knowing what's beyond the...

Hello Xavier, you're right of course: Communication is one of the tasks of language. The Grammar is "late": Language follows special patterns (word order, inflection, cases, conjugation, etc) - language has to follow those patterns as without them, communication wouldn't be possible. The only...

The answer below is swiped straight out of "grammar monster". (The cut and paste has killed the formatting, but the detail is still there. Hope this helps. Present Progressive Tense Verbs describing actions in the present are said to be in the present tense. The present progressive tense...

Prospective Past vs Retrospective Past The Past Family are Prospective past. It is the opposite of time adverb "Ago", a retrospective past. I want to put IN THE PAST DAY and A DAY AGO in contrast. In the diagram below I hope you can see the right and left limits of YESTERDAY. ____the day...

In order to explain tense, I have resurrected the important role of the sentence. Sentences express meanings (like Habit); tenses tell only the time of the meanings. This is the main point of the new approach. Tenses are used tell different parts of time, namely past, present, or future, of a...

THE EMBARRASSMENT OF DEFINITE PAST TIME ADVERBIALS (DPTA) Most grammar books will remind you of the 'Golden Rule': Present Perfect doesn't stay with past time expressions, such as "yesterday, in 1993, last week," etc. However, as they know by heart they are hiding away many past time...

I have long noticed a kind of tense-changing process: telling the time frame of an action will have to change its tense. If on one-sentence basis, the stand-alone meanings of Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Simple Present are no more than the following four simple rules: (a) Simple Present...