Do/does/did is not used in questions 1. with forms of to be : Is he happy? Were they swimming? 2. with perfect and past perfect auxiliaries : Have you seen him? Had it already begun? 3. sometimes with have/has/had when the verb is in the

Hi Clive, Thanks for taking the time on my query. I guess what I had in mind when I used "had taken computer science for 2 semesters.." rather than the simple "took" was the deliberate intent to emphasize the duration I had

I told my mom she has gotten a ticket for not speaking English. OR I told my mom she had gotten a ticket for not speaking English. What's the difference between the two sentences? I know one is present perfect and the other past perfect but

You are missing a word. Your parent's what? If your parent's cousins hadn't got divorced? If your parent's friends hadn't got divorced? Or did you mean -- just maybe -- parents ? parents is not the same as parent's , you

Could it be "Have you worked hard at some things and saw your friend ..."?-- NO, THAT'S WHY I CORRECTED IT. ' Have you worked...and seen... .'

Hi. Thank you so much. Do you think the present tense and past tense in the part I am about to mention as I wrote it in the first post in an impossible (incorrect) combination? I am talking about the part "Have you worked hard at some

These are OK: Have you worked hard at some things and seen your friend , who didn't do/hadn't done anything, get all the credit for what you worked / had worked hard for? Did you work hard at something and see your friend , who didn't do/hadn't

Hi. Would you say the underlined past perfect tense is correct? Would you say the past tense "worked" is correct too? What would you say if the beginning part were changed to "Did you work hard" instead of "Have you worked

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

You can wait more than 45 minutes before assuming no one will answer your post. Some of us even sleep at night. In another thread you said you didn't understand the perfect tenses. There is the present perfect tense: I