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"Over" in The Simple Past and The Perfect Tenses

Over the last weeks, I have seen many movies. Over the last week, I saw many movies. Do we have to use "The Simple past Tense" after the time phrase if the time expression is not pluralized as in "over the last week" I don't see anything wrong in saying "Over the last week, I have...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Kilimanjaro 2 yr 147 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Simple Past, Past Tenses

Anonymous wrote: I realized how exhausted I was, and how little I was looking forward to what LAY ahead. Is this correct? What should this be? Thanks! Hope this article helps ..... LANGUAGE CORNER Lie, Lay, and All That Lie This to Rest? BY EVAN JENKINS No, of course...

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Hi, I really feel sorry I can't help but quote this long passage for my question. "The takeoff is no different than that of a normal airplane on a runway," says Zubrin. "But once the oxygen is loaded, the plane goes to an altitude of 128 kilometers at 2 G's (two gravities). There will be...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Anonymous 2 yr 167 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses
Re: ...it's hightime...

high time Long overdue: It's high time that you started working. Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/hightime01.html It's (high/about) time ...

ESL Vocabulary and Idioms by Likeguslee 2 yr 171 days ago Expressions, Verbs, Grammar, Tenses, Present Tenses, Past Tenses
Re: Past tense

This expression is rarely used in the past tense, because it is often used to describe the overall quality of the person telling the joke, not the joke itself. For example, if I say "You crack me up", I'm saying that I find you funny in general.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Ron In Ohio 2 yr 206 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses, Jokes
Re: meaning

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I know "have" can mean "eat", and "I had lunch" is quite natural to me. But if we take "had" in "I had a lot to eat" in that way, the sentence would be rephrased as "I ate a lot to eat". The expression seems to me to be somehow redundant, though I know I...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by khoff 2 yr 254 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses, Idioms
Re: Question about past tense and present tense

It's hard to say without having seen the scene in the movie, but it could also mean "You are forgetting the seat" - related to the expression "Aren't you forgetting something?", used as a reminder. This substitution usually lends an air of pompousness or superiority to the statement, but it's...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 272 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses
Re: would/should

You're welcome, Jake! I've been thinking about this lately, and in American English, the use of "wish" is possible with the past tense, and I notice that you have been trying to construct sentences with this pattern. The problem you are running into is that you are putting a punctual...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 276 days ago American English, Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses
Re: tense sequence

It is only a matter of time before (something happens) means We are not going to need to wait very long before (something happen). In short, this part of the sentence is written from the past point of view. The writer knows what happened, that is, he knows what was going to...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 280 days ago Tenses, Expressions, Past Tenses, Marriage
Re: when

1- When / By the time he arrives, we begin the meeting. In Turkish, it is possible. But in Turkish "we begin the meeting" that is, the simple present has somewhat a future meaning. But in English the use of simple present for future is limited to certain events, such as time-tables, schedules...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Diamondrg 2 yr 295 days ago Simple Present, Difference Between, Tenses, Past Perfect, Expressions, Simple Past, Past Tenses

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