In English grammar^x, Perfect progressive^x

Hello, I really need your help with English grammar. I want to become an au pair in England and need to write a letter to my potential hostfamily. I would like to tell them that I`m taking a training course at college to become an educator and have no idea how to write it. Do I have to...

CalifJim has written an excellent summary here. May I just add a couple of observations of my own. CalifJim wrote:You may be driving yourself crazy trying to make every sentence with a present perfect tense fit into one those three categories! I have written six letters this morning.This...

1. Brenda left. That's a simple past tense. If anything happened BEFORE that time, you would then use the past perfect. No need for it here. 2. You FOUND out. That already implies the past. Any action taking place BEFORE the time you found out will make use of the past perfect. In this case...

Thanks Goldmund, OH dear....... It is a long time since I did English grammar at school. My answers are all from memory, I am not looking anything up, (as is patently obvious). Perhaps I should They say you forget old stuff to make room for the new, obviously I have forgotten A LOT!!...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

TRASK R.L., Mind the Gaffe. The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English, (Penguin Books), 2001. "perfect progressive passive" The perfect progressive passive is illustrated by the following example: My house has been being painted for two weeks now. There is nothing here which...

You've selected a verb ('to work') for which the difference between the present perfect and the present perfect continuous is practically insignificant. There are other verbs for which one of these is possible, and the other, anomalous. For these, it may be easier to understand the difference...

Susan, I understand the frustration you are feeling. Your language, Chinese, is what linguists call an "isolating language". All information, such as the time an action occurred, is conveyed by the choice and order of words in a sentence. There are no verb tenses. There are no plurals. In fact,...