No, this is incorrect. Past perfect should be used carefully. It signifies past events with one preceeding another. I had lived in England for 10 years before relocating to Hong Kong 6 month ago. For your sentence, a simple past tense " I

Is it correct to say like I would only send money once we had been paid. It's correct if it represents the past-time statement I was going to send money once we had been paid . It almost implies that we were eventually paid, and then we

I "would" is past, we "Are" is present. I would pay once we *were* paid.

Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past. For example - "I ate two

* I work from 6.00am until 1.00pm every day. - Present simple, a routine (P) * Snow melts when the temperature rises. - Present simple (I), 'a scientific or general truth.' * She has been married for one year. - Present perfect (J) * At 10.30 I

'Killed' is simple past because we use simple past for past perfect in dependent clauses where the main verb is past perfect; we do not repeat it.

Could anyoune please explain to me the use of the tenses in the following sentence: "The dull headache I'd had since I killed him had gone." (Winterson 1987, The Passion, 137) My question is why after the word "since" the

WHat about - I would pay - in this case? Doesn't it refer to the Present or Future Tenses? It turns out that the first part of the sentense says about the Present (Future) and the second about the Past...... is it ok? Whould it be better just

It's correct. The impression that you are giving the reader is that one of remembering the past, telling us what you used to do. "Had been" is used for past perfect, "have been" for present perfect.

Hi, I have been working through an exercise, the majority of it went well, but I just need someone to help me to clarify some of the answers below. The assignment first covers the 'Tense' of the question, followed by the function. Thank