Hi Anon: If you look in any English language reference book under verb tenses, you will find the answer to your question. "be" is a helping verb (auxilliary) for the passive voice of verbs, and "have" is the helping verb for

In the interrogative and the negative of the simple past tense, the 'past indicator' is in the helping verb: I did not even belong in this..........

Ate is the simple past tense. Eaten is past participle, which is used with a helping verb to indicate an action already completed by some point of time in the past ( have eaten is present perfect form becasue action is completed by now, had eaten

Hi, In your example, "has" and "have" are both in the same time frame, or "tense." The mail has been sent in the recent past. This tense is called "present perfect." "Perfect" means the action is

I think your question is what does it mean when one says "I have had," or "I had had" because no one can say I had have." I have had is a present perfect of to have The present perfect is a 2 part present tense starting

Simple past is talked - I talked, you talked, we talked, etc. However since you are using the helping verb "did" , you use I did talk you did talk he does talk we did talk you (plural) did talk we did talk I did

Pemmican wrote: As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive

Hello Xavier, you're right of course: Communication is one of the tasks of language. The Grammar is "late": Language follows special patterns (word order, inflection, cases, conjugation, etc) - language has to follow those patterns as without

In former times, questions were built by a so called 'inversion', that means Subject and Verb of the actual sentence changed positions: Examples: You like tea. -----> Question: Like you tea? He likes tea. -----> Question: Likes he tea?

I don't really understand the question either... Konstantin, you're referring to the Conditional with your German example. Indirect speech in German works differently as the Conjunctive has to be used in formal German, which however, can be