Great observation! You are absolutely correct in your thought about the tenses matching. He controls (present simple) Andrew's Gold Imports and has been running (present perfect continuous) the business for almost ten years. He

He controls Andrew's gold imports, and had been running the business for almost ten years. 1. Why is the past continuous perfect used here (and not the past simple or past continuous)? 2. Could the alternatives in brackets be

was told that I shouldn't decide on the tense and aspect of the main clause by what the subordinate clause is. That is, the tense and aspect should be in relation to the greater text. What I said in the earlier post was a rule of thumb.

Could you tell me whether following sentences are correct or not? Thanks. == If it rained now, I wouldn't go fishing. If it were raining now, I wouldn't go fishing. If it rain now, I would't go fishing.

I'm glad this could be of help, English 1b3! The discussion I read on conditionals doesn't mention that the second conditional can refer to the present as well as the future??? Let me suggest a classification of conditional clauses that

Hi I would just like to ask if someone can please look at my final exercise for me to see if my answers are correct. Concentrating on the highlighted verbs please state which tenses are being used on the following sentences:- 1.

Hi I would just like to ask if someone can please look at my final exercise for me to see if my answers are correct. Concentrating on the highlighted verbs please state which tenses are being used on the following sentences:- 1.

Joe left the house, but before he had reached the place, his wife called him to call John. When he got to the place, he used a public phone nearby to call John. ... Your examples would be easier to deal with if you used fewer generic words like

Hi I am just struggling with my last 6 questions could somone please look over them and tell me if I am ok or not. Please look through the following sentences and firstly state which TENSE is being used (please concentrate on the

I would like someone to confirm my thoughts on the following sentence, to see if I am on the right track or am just in fantasy lala land, going off on a tangent: "Because Malcolm had never become a cutthroat CEO, he had few enemies." I