By Learn English, Tenses

It's acceptable, but after the expression "It's time" the past tense (with present meaning) is the usual pattern.CJ

Hi,This is Babu.I am having doubts while using past tense in conversation.by using could,wolud,had, had been like that.

Hello New Guest, I really understand what you are looking for because when I was at intermediate level, I was questioning everything like you and interested in thinking every sentence in detail. Past perfect tense was my favourite.I questioned and thought about its usage for years because it...

But when you ask if something is correct and it has an incorrect element, it would be remiss of us to not point that out. Oddly, we expect that when people come to a forum to learn English and present their work as correct, they have taken all due care to ensure that it is correct. Silly of us, I...

Hi everybody,I started write English topic to improve writing skill, but I don't know where I'm wrong in topic (grammar, vocabulary, tense, ..). I really want to learn English effectly, could you show my mistake in topic. Please help me :-). Here's topic:I moved to the new company one month ago....

Hi MkyolI'd like to point out a few things:- The word 'since' does not work in your sentence as it is written. It seems that you want to use the word 'since' to talk about 'from a point in the past up to now', but that doesn't work well with the verb 'started'. The start of something is usually...

You see to write the past perfect tense there should be two past events."My mother had had an intense passion for education, and I started to learn English since junior high school."In the above you wrote 'had had' .So if you want to keep it as it is, I would write the following."My mother had...

"My mother had had an intense passion for education, and I started to learn English since junior high school." Is that right? I want to signify the fact that it was my mother's intense passion for education (which preceded in time) that made me learn English since junior high school by making...

Today is Tuesday,September 12, 2007 . I was joint a interview in S-Fone corp . It’s hard to pass because it’s very difficult . IQ part I did quite well but english part I did very bad .Tuesday next week , the result of interview will report, I am very worry because I am afraid i will be...

Thank you so much! I understand.Hi Amy,well, it is not true, is it? When you say "I only need a few beers", you are not modifying "need"... That "only" could refer to "need", "few" or "beers".Hmm, then how do you decide what 'only' modifies when a sentence is written rather than spoken? Ah-ha!...