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I know that this repeats much of what was said above by others, but with complex topics sometimes just reading the same information with many different phrasings helps a little. I bought it at Target. Here Target refers to the entire company, regardless of which particular store the purchase...

Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time - we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday , but not I have seen him yesterday . In fact, such structure are unusual but not impossible (though learners should avoid them)....

E-mail back from my friend: I got a Swan at hand (1995 ed) now and it should be the same as your friend’s. Ask him to read 419.3: Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions of finished time – we can say “I have seen him” or “I saw him...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

Goodman wrote: Gents, With all due respect, I have this question. Whether we are speaking of the visitors coming to the forum or English learners in general; do we really expect the ESL students and learners at the average level to have the ability to process, as well as determine when and...

Fortunatelly, these are just names of lakes. I'm sure Clive would say that one doesn't often mention lakes in an everyday conversation (unless one doesn't come from Minnesota or Finland). P.S. Re-reading my post, I'm wondering if "unless one doesn't come from" is grammatically correct. I would...

Teo wrote: Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time - we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday , but not I have seen him yesterday . In fact, such structure are unusual but not impossible (though learners should...

Teo wrote: Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time - we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday , but not I have seen him yesterday . In fact, such structure are unusual but not impossible (though learners should...

Grammars usually say that the present perfect tenses cannot be used together with expressions pf finished time - we can say I have seen him or I saw him yesterday , but not I have seen him yesterday . In fact, such structure are unusual but not impossible (though learners should avoid them)....

Clive wrote: Parent to child: I'm going out for an hour. You'd better have done your homework by the time I get back, or you'll be in big trouble. To me, this is a perfectly normal and common construct. Let's see what any other people wish to say about it. Very interesting. Paco I'm interested...