She has been married for one year. Is this, PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS or, PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS? MATT

From where I stand, I see these 2 sentences in tense disagreement without additional context to support them. The first implies that Tony may no longer know the City. For the second one, It makes more sense to say: "Tony knows

A Tony knew Istanbul so well because he had visited the city several times. B Tony knew Instanbul so well because he has visited the city several times. A is past perfect and B is present perfect, but they do seem to mean the same thing to me...

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.

Hi, 1) Which one is correct and why? The beauty is found in hum ans. The beauty is to be found in humans. I am a new learner and don't know much about grammar. Why "To be" is used in a sentence by the way? 'To be found' is

It can't. Snooping follows blowing off, and not vice versa. The only possible alternative would be: After you had blown me off, I snooped into your life. The past perfect is optional, however, since after makes it clear that blowing off

You are missing a word. Your parent's what? If your parent's cousins hadn't got divorced? If your parent's friends hadn't got divorced? Or did you mean -- just maybe -- parents ? parents is not the same as parent's , you

Grammar books generally list both as the pp, however, the way they are used seems different to me: have + got carries the meaning of " have/own " while have + gotten is used in all other cases So, we would say

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