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Clive, with all due respect but sentence number two is not correct anymore if you change the tense. If the question is in present perfect, it should also be answered in present perfect. The question starts from a point in the past and refers to the present. Therefore the answer has to do the...

Hi ABCD. You need to come back on this. The grammar in both versions is identical (continuous). Only the number of years has changed.

I've run into the following question when you received a notice of the Court ruling, say, from the 9th Appellate Court, say, on September 24 (so two days from now), and you are reporting it to your friend. Under this circumstance, which one of following sentences is correct 1. I have...

Is the action something that extends continuously, habitually, or regularly from the past to the present? That is, at any point in time between the start of the action and now, if you looked at what was happening, would this action be happening? If so, you need the continuous tense. Otherwise,...

Hi Frank, Welcome to the forums. Your main problem seems to be tense. Today my friends and I have visited Grouse Mountain, in Vancouver, Canada. Usually with a specific day, use simple past. Present perfect is possible, but I think simple past is better here. We planned to visit it last...

Hi Avangi To me, the word ' if ' is used like ' whenever ' in your sentence, and the word ' will ' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on...

Hi Marvin I made my comment about the present perfect because I think it would be far more likely for someone speaking AmE to use the simple past tense ( I broke a/my tooth or I broke one of my teeth ), and because I felt quite sure that the simple past tense is what I'd use most often in a...

Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is __ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is __ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so just use Simple...

Clive wrote: Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is __ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is __ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so...

Hi again, You stated the document number earlier. You had stated the document number earlier. I don't think there is any difference in meaning between those two. The only difference is that the first one is simple past tense, and the other is past perfect tense... There's a...