By Difference between, Past tenses

Re: difference between may and might

There is no difference between may and might worth agonizing about. may sounds a bit more formal to my ear. And may cannot be used where a past tense is required in tense matching: I knew I might be late. Not I knew I may be late. In other situations, both are used the same way. Use the...

Re: Fell or fallen

Do you know that fallen is the past participle of fall and fell is the past tense?>>No Can you eleborate on it or give me references and what is basic difference between past tense and past participle?

Re: I thought

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Re: I thought

Could a native speaker please respond to New2grammar's query? Many thanks.

I thought

What's the difference between "I thought I knew" and " I thought I know"? I was told that the verb following "I thougt" must be past tense. (Goodman, hope you don't mind me using your words. I don't mean to pick on you, just trying to learn from your...

Editing of paragraph/1

An Anonymous' s post on the subject of the ' difference between 'can' and ' able ' contains a post thread (#354509 ) in which Mister Micawber says that 'can' and ' be able to ' have the same meaning and instructs the main poster to use ' I can't...

Re: is / become

Hi, I am rather confused with the tense of become. If the evenrt happened in the past, it's clear to me that past tense shall be used. Such as: Tom became a teacher last year. Yes. But how about following: I'm not sure about the nature of your confusion. I'll just comment on your...

Please, help me with this question

Hi! An explanation, please. Present Perfect tense means past time related to present time and one of its uses is: an action that happened at an indefinite time in the past, e.g.: I have travelled to Athens. But in the sentence: I have read a magazine * today ,how to explain that we...

Re: What did he say? What was it he said?

Why is it that we say, "What did he/she say?" or "What did I say?" even when it is past tense? We use 'did' in making a past tense sentence interrogative or negative, using the base form of the verb.As a follow-up question to those kind enough to answer, is there a...

What did he say? What was it he said?

I have a question about Grammar that has been perplexing me for a while, and hopefully the good people out there who know better English than I do might be able to help me! This actually came to me while I was reading a badly translated script, which is unimportant, but it made me think; Why...