The key indicator for using past perfect is this question: Do I have two events involved in the scenarios you are describing? Clearly, that's the case here. We (live) __ in Ireland for five years then we (move ) __ to London in 2000.

Since there is no direct time frame specified, one can only assume that this conversation has come to past. Based on the logic process going in my head, as far as C's reason for being late is concerned, I would say this: " The reason

Hi, Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined I see no underlining expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. OK B: I don't know what has happened to C. keeps

Situation: We (A and B) are waiting for a friend (C). Is the underlined expression okay in the above situation? A: We've been waiting for C for a long time. B: I don't know what happened to C. A: I can't wait any longer. I have to go

He had received our help over past years Based on the above, I would say past perfect continuous is more appropriate as this process went on for quite sometime. However, it didn't meet the basic requirement for past perfect which is two

I'd recommend the past perfect tense, "that I had dozed a little." This shows that one past tense event took place before the other. First, you dozed. Then you realized it.

Is it because of the singular and plural? Yes, exactly. I know we usually associate the letter "s" with plural, but it doesn't work that way with verbs. I do you do he does we do you do they do But in the past tense, we use only

"I saw that Jane came by yesterday." In this sentence "came" is the lexical verb of a subordinate clause hence it must show its relation to time, which in this case is past tense. "That" shows us that this is a

Hi, rishila, welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! The use of "do" is a little hard to get used to. I'm not sure what you mean by "for pronoun only." It's used a lot in questions and negative statements.

Hi No, I'm afraid it's not correct. The problem is your use of the verb 'go'. You tried to use the negative form of the simple past tense and wrongly assumed it was 'did not went'. This is a tricky aspect of