In Paragraphs^x, Past perfect^x, Past tenses^x

Greetings, I have a pretty big favour to ask. I've been struggling with this topic for quite awhile now.It goes without saying that my English "leaves something to be desired". Having in mind the subtle differences that occur from using particular tenses, I have often wondered how...

This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent. The only sentence that has a problem is, "We had worked together...and have always had good relationships...even after I have left... That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense. The rest of the paragraph is simple...

The language of media is a bit different, both in vocabulary and grammar, than the normal writing. One of the differences is the tense, as you've mentioned. If the time of the event, state,... is past, the tense of the sentence is present; if it is past perfect, then the sentence is past; and...

Hi, I wrote this before I saw Khoff's post, so here's yet another point of view. And then one evening, after I had begged her to buy me a transistor radio, after she refused and I had sulked in silence for an hour,she said, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?" Here's...