English is a difficult language to adopt as a second language for so many reasons. Your point about learning Japanese is irrelevant to this 'why English is difficult' conversation. In places like Canada, did you know the reason for having

I' m travelling to London next week. - Present Continuous - Future I wish I had more time to finish this exercise. - Past Simple - Present When you have finished , you can go home. - Present Perfect - Future Gorbachev Calls for Peace Summit. -

Hey, just posting for a quick check. I'm sure these are  mostly correct. Thanks, Matt.      1.   Mark’s been teaching English since 1995.      1- Present Perfect Continuous 2.   After a year abroad, I’ll have learnt a lot.    2- Future

Hey, just posting for a quick check. I'm sure these are mostly correct. Thanks, Matt. 1. Mark’s been teaching English since 1995. 1- Present Perfect Continuous 2. After a year abroad, I’ll have learnt a lot. 2- Future Perfect 3. I will

Hello renjithar, and welcome to English Forums. Before anyone put a lot of time into examples: 1. Do you understand the different ways that "have" and "has" are used? 2. Do you understand the present perfect and the

Part of the English learning is to develop a sense when to use the proper tense for the context you have in mind. Most people we come across in our everyday life probably don't give too much emphasis in past perfect in conversation to

Hi, I'm especially woried about the grammar part, particularly as far as the usage of the past perfect tense is concerned... is it necessary or not? Generally speaking, if u could check the grammar and if it sound english-like enough I'd

It is 'incorrect' only in the regional English which you are prescribing I'm not defending a regional dialect of English. I'm pointing out the correct form of the 3rd conditional spoken throughout England and other English

What is the best way to identify subjunctives? It may be better just to ignore them! English has so few forms that are obviously subjunctive that it's not often you'll see them. Most subjunctive forms are the same as non-subjunctive forms,

A good way to look at is that the past perfect tense is used when two actions occured in the past and you want to indicate which was first and which was second. My mom asked me why we were out of eggs. I told her that I had gone to the