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Hi She tells me that you re the one I shoud talk to She has informed me that you are the single person capable of locaing the book Teachers why do you have to use the present perfect form has informed in the second sentence I wouldn t say that you have to use it in a context like this You can use...

Rule of thumb don t use since with ago together Since is used typically in present perfect tense and ago is used in past tense You can say I have been suffering from insomnia for weeks or I was suffering from insomnia 3 years ago

Hi I was listening to some types of speeches and have some questions 1 When someone says this does he have to make it known that it is quoted Not if he doesn t want to Such rules are not governed by grammar A teacher for example may insist that a student identify every quotation I think the...

Hi I was listening to some types of speeches and have some questions 1 When someone says this does he have to make it known that it is quoted I think the written version should be in quotation marks because not being in quotation marks doesn t make sense to me Next time is later again 2 Can we...

Hello everyone For the phrase in the past during the past ten years and within these few days I ve check my dictionaries and searched in the Internet and I found that they tend to use present perfect So I m wondering if they could also use simple past tense Like In the past he has been a...

He bought a parrot that the seller said it would repeat every word he uttered Contented he went home and but later found it didn t say a word Furious he went back to the owner and asked him what had happened The owner answered that he had not lied didn t lie OK to the man The lying or in fact...

quote user New2grammar A has been sentenced to 10 years and has served 5 of them so far So you re saying that without has it sounds like served is in past tense instead of present perfect reusing the first has Yes for me quote user New2grammar I have paid and signed the paper quote I interpret...

A has been sentenced to 10 years and has served 5 of them so far So you re saying that without has it sounds like served is in past tense instead of present perfect reusing the first has quote user New2grammar I have paid and signed the paper quote I interpret signed here as present perfect tense...

quote user Doll Considering last night I wouldn t use the present perfect tense and replace it with the past tense quote That s absolutely correct we aren t specific as to when an action occured with the pres perf In this case I think the implication is that I have been good for some time now...

Considering last night I wouldn t use the present perfect tense and replace it with the past tense