By Past tenses, Perfect progressive

As I read the rule, it says, "for a specific time, use past tense." The doctor may have recently changed your prescreption, and "authorized" the new medicine, but that act of "giving" you the medicine took place at a specific time. On the other hand, the medicine...

I would like to thank you for your edition.However, I cannot understand/ have not understood/have not been understanding the logic of your edition.Could you ...' b. am not able to understand I was reading the thread and wanted to...

Dear Teachers,I would like to know how the past progressive tense works, and when it is correct to use it, in contradiction to the simple past tense?Moreover, I would like to get a terse explanation about 'present perfect progressive', I'm not even sure about the tense's name.I'm convined that it...

I chose my wording carefully to avoid both present perfect and past tenses, Amintnt.You are finished-- finished is a predicate adjective.(The performance was not a finished production -- finished is an attributive adjective.)

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect Progressive Tense 9: Simple Future...

Hello AnonIt doesn't look correct to me. I would suggest:1. If you work hard, will you pass?MrP

Hi, please help me in this sentence, is it coorect? do if u work hard ,will u pass?

I've usually liked the people I worked with. (typo on my part)

Thank you MH! It's very helpful

Maple wrote:So it should be: Up to the present time, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new tendency has been placing the home in the immediate suburbs, but concentrated manufacturing activity, business relations, government, and pleasure in the centres of the...