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Another question on page 8:Complete these sentences in any way you like, taking care to choose appropriately between the present perfect and past simple tenses.d) A: Do you still have your school books from when you were a kid? B : No, my parents ...My answer : have thrown them all out.Book...

Greetings,I have a pretty big favour to ask.I've been struggling with this topic for quite awhile now.It goes without saying that my English "leaves something to be desired".Having in mind the subtle differences that occur from using particular tenses, I have often wondered how the...

Hi Could you check if I used the present perfect tense and (already, just, yet) correctly? Is it also possible to ask two questions in the present perfect tense related to this text, because it seems to me that only the past simple tense would be correct, e.g. Did I like Jerry (instead of) Have...

Hello everyone! I need your help. One of my books contains the following examples of the reported speech:1) "Why is the world round?"asked the little girl.The little girl wanted to know why the world was round.2) "Smoking is bad for you", the teacher told us.The teacher...

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'....

How would you explain the difference in structure and usage between these tenses to a low-level student?Past　simple and past continuouspast simple and present perfectpresent perfect and past perfect

I think you need to review the tenses.Without an -ing word, there is no progressive tense. See 3 and 4.With auxiliary verb have, you have a perfect tense. See 3. You missed one that was past simple. Look for verb forms that end in d. Can you please try again? CJ

Hello,I need help with checking whether these verb tenses are present perfect, present simple, present progressive, past simple.I put my answers in (brackets)2. I wish I had more time to finish this exercise. (present simple) 3. When you have finished, you can go home. (present...

I think it was a wrong idea providing you that sentence in the Present Simple because you just did the backshift as it is normally done in the reported speech.The problem is that I want to know what tense I should use when I start a sentence in the Past Simple (e.g It looked..., He looked......

Hi there,Do we need the backshift after as if / as though in the past tense ?For example, I want to say He looks as if he saw a ghost in the Past Simple without changing the meaning so I have to say...He looked as if he saw a ghost orHe looked as if he had seen a ghost ???Thank you in advance.