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"I wondered whether you could help me?", Simple past, completed action. This is not present tense, but I suppose the "past time" could be one second ago. I don't use this. "I had wondered whether you could help me?" Past perfect tense. The action (wonder)...

Hi Fandorin You seem to be mixing things up. Angliholic's sentence is not an example of the idiomatic " to have got ", which means basically the same thing as "to have" or "to possess". In that idiom, it is not possible to change the word 'got' to...

1 . I wonder who is making / was making that dreadful row . - are both versions possible? Yes. If you are talking about the noise going on now, use "is" but if you are talking about that noise you hear last night, for example, use "was." 2 . After he had eaten an enormous dinner, he...

Hi Magda I'd say both your sentences are correct. There is a tendency in American English to use the past tense with always and never , but the perfect tense is of course also right. (I do realize that in your example the past perfect is used.) Examples: I always wanted to see him in person. / I...

3/ What's the difference between : I would like to see it VS I should like to see it. In American English, you do not use "I should" to mean "I would like to," which translates roughly into "Please, may I see it." I'm sure you can construct a situation in which you'd say "I should like to...

We use "think" in the past simple or past perfect tense to indicate a belief that was previously held but that has been shown to be incorrect. For example: I didn't think she was going. (past simple) I had thought that she wasn't going. (past perfect) The exception is in converting from...