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.

Look at how much money we got . What tense is this sentence? It's simple present tense right?

Vincent Teo, (a) is open to objection since the sequence of tenses is neglected here. Besides, it formally suggests that the action of 'coming by' took place against the background of some longer, continuous action - in this sense

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

Simple past . It is also called indefinite past because of 'always'.

Sorry, I don't have time to read through this whole discussion, but 'I have owned 3 restaurants' indicates distinctly that he no longer does so : if he still owned them, he would say ' I own 3 restaurants '. The present perfect merely relates the

The sentence "I have owned three restaurants" is used in indefinite past of the present perfect.  Due to this, we, as the audience, do not rightly know that said subject still owns them. Without more information from sentences preceding

Hello. For how to form the past simple you can have a look at this article - Past Simple Rules If you need help pronouncing the past this will be very helpful - Past Simple Pronunciation I hope these help.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to consider additional troops in Afghanistan.-- The 'be to + infinitive' is used for established facts about the future. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown considers additional troops in Afghanistan.-- Simple present