He had received our help over past years Based on the above, I would say past perfect continuous is more appropriate as this process went on for quite sometime. However, it didn't meet the basic requirement for past perfect which is two

I'd recommend the past perfect tense, "that I had dozed a little." This shows that one past tense event took place before the other. First, you dozed. Then you realized it.

Is it because of the singular and plural? Yes, exactly. I know we usually associate the letter "s" with plural, but it doesn't work that way with verbs. I do you do he does we do you do they do But in the past tense, we use only

"I saw that Jane came by yesterday." In this sentence "came" is the lexical verb of a subordinate clause hence it must show its relation to time, which in this case is past tense. "That" shows us that this is a

Hi, rishila, welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us! The use of "do" is a little hard to get used to. I'm not sure what you mean by "for pronoun only." It's used a lot in questions and negative statements.

Hi No, I'm afraid it's not correct. The problem is your use of the verb 'go'. You tried to use the negative form of the simple past tense and wrongly assumed it was 'did not went'. This is a tricky aspect of

If the other person is still talking, I would probably use the present tense, but either will work fine.

Hi, No. There are two errors. 1. Say 'did not go', not 'did not went'. You need to review how to make simple past tense. 2. An English sentence must start with a capital letter. Clive

Hi, A sentence containing only a past perfect verb suggests an earlier time in the past. In the above example it could be over a hundred years but I think a broader context would probably answer that question. "The Rockerafella

I have a better idea: I'll give you a short story, and then you write it in different tenses, and we'll check your efforts. Here's one in past tense; please change it to present: The Ant and the Grasshopper In a field one summer's day a