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Hi, Let's look at 'remember' as an example.Simple Past - Last Wednesday, I couldn't find my car keys. But the next day, I remembered where I put them. Present Perfect - I have remembered where I put my car keys. Now we can go for a drive!In my earlier post, I just tried to give...

Hi, Lily. If you've already done grammar on Present/Past Continuous you know that these tences are used to talk about some activity in process. There are some verbs which can't be used in Continuous because they don't describe any activity, e.g. I have children - I have children at...

Hi everybody,Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions "simple present" and "simple past", although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, past progressive, past...

Hi everybody,I'm a teacher of English at a German Grammar School and after 12 years of experience I'm still wondering about the following puzzle:Why do all the Grammar books stick to the "confusing" expressions simple past and simple present, although it seems quite more logical...

In an excellent advanced grammar book, Exploring Grammar in Context by Carter & Hughes & McCarthy, this exercise was given on the present perfect.(page 7, exercise 4, item c)Choose between the present perfect and past simple tneses for the verbs in brackets. If you think both are equally...

Hi,How would you explain the difference in structure and usage between these tenses to a low-level student?Past　simple and past continuous Teach structure with examples, explaining how the tense is formed with the root of the verb. Show them the conjugation of a simple verb like 'cook'....

Hello, Grammar Geek.I'm a bit confused by your explanation. I thought that we use the past simple when we talk about repeated actions in the past: e.g. I went past her house every day.And we use the past continuos 1) if the situation was temporary: e.g. To get fit for the race, I was going to...

Jaishree, The second one is correct because it contains the auxiliary verb ("is") and punctuation (the period or full-stop at the end). Without the verb, in particular, the first line is not actually a sentence. For clarity, you can always rearrange the wording into the basic subject +...

Hi Goodman, and thanks for the reply! Actually, I meant replacing it with the Past Simple: «But eating from a "box" an hour after they cooked (it — inserted by Ant) is not very appetizing to my stomach, unless I was starving» «It should be "Have been cook.." (present...

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...