The "parked" question had been discussed here before. In American English, "you are parked" is considered incorrect if you meant to say "your car is parked in my space". So it's rather disfficult to answer your

Fewer students have played truant since the new system was implemented. It's common construction with using Present Perfect in one clause and Past Simple in since-clause. It has been ages since I saw him. __ In sentence with since we

Kooyeen wrote: Hi, Could someone comment on these? I don't understand the difference between present perfect and past simple in passive constructions. Can both of the tenses be used, even if something just happened? (for example, the bank was

Hi, Could someone comment on these? I don't understand the difference between present perfect and past simple in passive constructions. Can both of the tenses be used, even if something just happened? (for example, the bank was robbed 1 minute ago

Bokeh wrote: Grammar Geek wrote: Are you saying that the simple past is not used for recent events in BrE? What about: I think I saw a ghost! GG, that example has different context. You are specifically stating that the sighting is

Hi, Miriam. I have a few questions. I would appreciate your comments on them when you have the time. (It's nothing urgent. I don't want to interrupt your dialog with Pastel.) 1. > Did you really intend to include the verbs "wish",

Could you please look at this for me? 1 It takes the water tank 20 mintues to get back to full capacity. The tank is always heating water non stop its not like the old tanks that heated water overnight. 2 The most repeated word in the report

In American English, "used to" and "use to" (in both the "s" being pronounced /s/ and in the former expression ... did not use to play on that team. Didn' t she use to work for your company? (end quote) No wonder