By Essays, Past perfect

This sentence could occur in a short story or novel. It would not likely occur in a casual conversation. Instead, it might beHe left her a note on the table beside the bed, but she didn't understand it.Or if the past perfect is absolutely necessary in the context.He'd left her a note...

The building of the new missile still has current relevance, so the original tense of the announcement is retained in the retelling: "We have built a new missile." Iran announced that it had built a new missile. (Correct. Can be used for all time, i.e., this can be said a thousand years...

Hello... I would like to ask a few questions about present perfect and past perfect tense.. do we use past perfect tense when we are mentioning something that happened before a past action only?? or is there any other circumstances which require us to use past perfect tense?? When we are...

Hi, I wonder what are the differences between these sentences? Here are a a few brief comments. The repetitious use of the gerund 'writing' + the verb 'write' in the same sentence is poor style. Let's talk about an essay instead. This is an essay that I have written. Suggests the essay has...

Differences between Past simple & Past perfect (simple)From my point of view the sentence "I have written 3 pages of my essay today." means, that I haven't finished it yet. Some work is done ("I have done something already.") and I will work on it later in the future.And the sentence "I wrote...

"I received a letter a year ago from a woman who had been saved by the people of Le Chambon when she was a young girl."Why did they use past-perfect here? Couldn't "was saved" work perfectly fine as well? With the use of "had been", it makes it seem like she had been saved BEFORE she became a...

Whether we are writing an essay or a story, we want to be able to depict the characters, scenes, setting and events as clearly as possible. In doing so, past and past perfect tense are often used to described past events. Different writers has different styles. Given a topic in a class of 20...

It is more formal to use the past perfect in reported speech, speaking of a previous event. I would suggest you use it in essay-writing, but not worry about it in conversation, as either is acceptable, and 'came' is probably the more common.

hi all ... This is my essay which i had sent it to my teacher by the e-mail. He wanted to write an essay and we must use ( present perfect , past perfect and past simple). Can u check it,plz...? and thanx...

Mirium, I appreciate your informative reply. I hope all my following sentence are grammatically correct regardless to any aspects of context or sense. Let me know if you found a flaw. He may look up the word in the dictionary. He might look up the word in the dictionary. He could look...