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Hi all, I wonder which tense is more prefer for the following sentences, present perfect or past tense(underline ones) ?In my accounting course work, I have emphasized in financial and managerial accounting skills. In addition to my academic foundation, I gained working experiences in...

Hi,Is the following statement about 'by now' true? "By now" means "by this time”, and is used to make a prediction of an event that should have already passed, but the outcome is not yet known for certain. For example:Bob left yesterday morning. He should have arrived in...

are. What has happened to them in Modern English? There was no future tense in Old English even though the predecessor of will was sometimes used to indicate future action. Its meaning was "to want, to desire" and will has mostly lost this meaning. It is still present in some contexts,...

Hi, Please correct this. I am particularly troubled by the choice of using the present and present perfect tenses in situations like this. Please tell me why you would use the past, rather than the present perfect. Brief biography:John Doe has graduated (graduated??) from *** University in the...

Hi, there! Here are my doubts. Could you help me, please? - He (write) a composition since lunch time. In this kind of sentence I could use e.g. the * Present Perfect Progressive: - He has been writting a composition since lunch time. In this case since is a starting point and the verb tense...

Hi, I have a question about tense in this sentence below."My family has been in this rural village for generations, so I never had to commute by crowded public transport."The person " I " have no experience of commuting by crowded transport until now. However, "had...

To me, first one is correct. There may be situations where the present perfect and future tense can be used together but in your sentence I couldn't make a sense out of it. In the first sentence you are talking about a condition. If X happens, Z will happen.

Yes. You can use either tense. The point was that events distant in the past can be expressed with the present perfect. There's no rule that says present perfect is always recent and simple past is always long ago. But maybe you knew that already, in which case you can ignore my post on...

I don't understand why "I have found a book I like" would be wrong -- not as an isolated sentence, at least.It must have been something else in the context of your phone conversation that caused your friend's reaction.The amount of time that has passed rarely has an influence on...

Regardless of the guidelines so often given in books in terms of "current relevance", in the case of throwing out the books, what you need is an explanation of why you don't have the books anymore (My parents threw them out.) -- not a commentary on what your parents may have done at...