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Ellisa: This is a very long passage, and your other post seems to be even longer. The editor at this web site makes it difficult to make corrections to long passages. Also, many teachers do not want to devote a long time working on a single post. If you post only one paragraph at a time, then...

Hi there. Welcome to EF. The differense between them happens to be interchangeable in some informal way or in narratives. We use Past Simple along with Present Perfect when we're talking about events happened in the past, but Present Perfect points that event may occur in the present again....

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...

Mister Micawber, I would like to thank you for the explanation.However, I have found one example of the present perfect tense which used the word "now" in the British council grammar test( http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-grammar-present-perfect-past-simple.htm...

(1) We only played one ... and it was four years ago. - You need to use the PAST SIMPLE here because you're talking about something which happened 4 years ago. (2) ...between his wife and the girls' coach... - you need the apostrophe after 'girls' because it's a possessive ...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly...

I read ICU's post. It posed an interesting question. Was it compulsory, to use an adverbial of time, with the past simple? I thought through a few examples. I read a few paragraphs from a book chosen at random from the nearest bookshelf. I googled up a few webpages, and examined various people's...

«...you said that it should be had been, but IMHO using Present Perfect Continuous is more correct, due to the general usage of this tense - actions or events that began in the past and are lasting til now or have recently ended. Notice that they still work as bus drivers» I wanted...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry...

In the first paragraph of his famous novel, Tim O'Brien writes: Billy Boy Watkins was dead , and so was Frenchie Tucker. Billy Boy had died of fright.. Since the event described in the second sentence happened earlier in time than the event in the first sentence, past perfect seems the...