By Past tenses, Grammar

Hello,I am the one who posed the original question (not anonymous now). Mr. Micawber, you chose "He provided service from August 2006 to August 2008". Is this necessarily wrong, "He has provided service since August 2006" ? We are printing the award in July, so, it is not a...

Hi,I was listening to some types of speeches and have some questions.1.When someone says this, does he have to make it known that it is quoted? Not if he doesn't want to. Such 'rules' are not governed by grammar. A teacher, for example, may insist that a student identify every...

"a form of the past tense" doesn't make sense to me. There is only one form of the past tense. I think you mean "a past tense form".Here are the forms of the modals. (Recall that this does not mean that they are used only in these tenses.)Present: will, shall, can,...

He has been selected and has played for the team 5 times this year.He has played and scored for his team.Maybe it's as a result of the separation by selected in the first sentence, but for me it sounds better with has repeated.The second sentence, for me, sounds OK as it is.Sorry, I don't...

A has been sentenced to 10 years and has served 5 of them (so far).So you're saying that without has it sounds like served is in past tense instead of present perfect reusing the first 'has'.I interpret signed here as present perfect tense, borrowing the have before paid.What do you...

To me, it does (in this sense), but it's less usual to use the past tense ("have gathered") in this way, so it kind of throws you off course (especially since it's not followed by "that").

Even though she said the words in the past she still stands by her claim. So, in a sense, the lie is continuing right up to the present and into the future (until the issue is resolved). After that her claim will be spoken of in the past tense.

Hi, I am a new member here. I like this forum because it helps me to learn grammar. I have a question about these phrases. " If I had more time, I could have traveled the world" or " If I were you, I would buy a house." when you are saying of writing these phrases, you are in...

Hello, everyone. One of my grammar books says both past perfect and simple past tense mean the same thing in the following example: When the teacher had arrived, they stopped talking.=When the teacher arrived, they stopped talking. But my another book says they don't mean the same thing. It...

Hello, everyone. I saw a sentence in my grammar book: It will be a great thing for future generations to know that I laid down my life here (I think it means "die in the battlefield") for the country. What confuses me is: the main clause uses future tense, but in the...