Hi everybody, Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions "simple present" and "simple past", although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect,

Hi everybody, I'm a teacher of English at a German Grammar School and after 12 years of experience I'm still wondering about the following puzzle: Why do all the Grammar books stick to the "confusing" expressions simple past and

Here are some Present - Past pairs: Simple present - Simple past Present progressive - Past progressive Present perfect - Past perfect Present perfect progressive - Past perfect progressive (Simple) Future (of the Present) (will) - ( Simple)

It's grammatically correct, and it makes sense, but it's not natural. Compare two expressions: finding out / found out getting to know / got to know The first one is used for learning or discovering about something at a particular point

Huygen, By reading your post, something tells me that your English level should be beyond the question you just asked, and able to categorize the tenses already. There are 3 basic tenses: Simple past – present – future There are past

It has the ring of the future to me. What are they doing next Friday afternoon? They're having a picnic at the park. On the other hand: -- Look over there -- toward the park! I don't have my glasses. What's going on? What are those

Hello, I need help with checking whether these verb tenses are present perfect, present simple, present progressive, past simple. I put my answers in (brackets) 2. I wish I had more time to finish this exercise. (present simple) 3. When you

Hi Viceidol, Thus far we have examples of three tenses: simple present, present progressive, and present perfect progressive. As Philip says, the present progressive seems awkward with "I am wanting." I don't know if it's

progressive words (justifying, linking, pinpointing, elaborating, refining, diminishing)

Hello Dawnstorm, In most of these sentences you could make a case for elided objects, that are taken care off by context (rather than considered irrelevant, as in "I am eating."): e.g. Yes, I saw X. X = anaphoric; referring to "Did