By Present perfect, Conditionals

Mr P: The distinction is clear, and has nothing to do with {teeth on edge} 'inclusiveness': Let us have no more touchy-feely grammar. JT: I allowed that it might, Mr P. I didn't state that it did. You may want to adress this issue with Casi. But before you do that, consider that grammatical...

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these gives eight tense-aspect combinations, sometimes...

This topic certainly can give a person fits! The typical pattern is that tenses are used together in one or the other of these two groups: 1. Present Point of View: Present, Future of the Present ("will"), Present Perfect, Future Perfect of the Present ("will have") 2. Past Point of...

I am an ESL teacher with lots of practical experience, I just recently got a new student who has a low ( almost nothing level of English) that has to pass a 25 question multiple choice exam in Feb. The test will have a variety of different structures from present simple - countables , present...

Guest, To help us help you better, please try to use one post for one question, and please do use capital letters to begin sentences as opposed to a bunch of small type with bunch of questions. This just helps us read your questions more clearly and quickly. 1) I suggest you review this web...

Hi, Andrei A couple of things: Yor sentence is perfect. Mountain Hiker posted another possibility which is also correct: "Had my father been alive today, he would have been 88." You have to be careful with this sentence, though, because it is very formal and it would be used mainly in writing –a...

>We told Sharon that her comments didn't really relate to the key issues at hand. is correct. I think, the direct speech sentence is in simple present: "Your comments don't relate to the key issues." When the "introduction"part of a sentence in indirect speech is in a past tense form (here:...

As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present participle d)...