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The present perfect cannot be used with specific (definite) times. This is the basic rule. When when? asks for a specific time it cannot be used with a present perfect. *When (=At what time / On what day) have we gone shopping? must be When did we go shopping?*When (=At what time / On what...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry If...

"Retire", when it is used to describe persons, it is, in its origin, an intransitive verb to mean "draw (oneself) away from the contact with other people", although it has been used as a transitive verb since ME days in the case it is used to talk about things. It is only in 18th century people...

Hello, excuse me. It shouhd have been: My grammar book says PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE is usual with all verbs in negative sentences. I have written PP continuous which was an accident. I try to translate exactly what this book says (It´s a Czech book for language schools - Angličtina pro jazykové...

Hi! (A Practical English Grammar - Thomson, Marinet): An action which began in the past and is still continuing or has only just finished can, with certain verbs, be expressed by either the present perfect simple or the present perfect continuous. Verbs which can be used in this way include:...

I think the present, past, and present perfect tenses are the most frequently used. For a good introduction to verbs and tenses, see Mary Ansell's English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html.

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Thank you for the quick reply. "Hope" seems a very simple verb, but frankly I'm really far from confident about how to use the phrase "I hope that...." and its kin phrases. My grammar book (Egawa's "A New Guide to English Grammar) says we can use "hope" in the present perfect tense. Actually,...

Very true, Aeolus29. There are only two tense inflections in English - the "s" for the present (only for third person singular), and the "ed" for the past. In this sense there are only two tenses. All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and/or modals with the...

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...