By Learning English, Simple present

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...

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"SIMPLE PRESENT EXPRESSES HABIT" In the beginning of learning English tense, we students in young days had to accept the injudicious process to fill in the 'right' tense: Ex: Tommy (go) to school every day. == Even on internet, today one can easily find many such exercises to help children to...

To keep up the actual aim of the thread: Another problem that I had while learning English was the backshift of tenses in Indirect Speech. While in German you would always use the subjunctive when you want to express something in Indirect Speech, in English you've to backshift every tense. This...