By Past tenses, TEFL

Hello I am Scottish and a TEFL teacher. The two sentences mean the same, there is no difference whether you use to inf or not. It is past tense. No ref. to future or coincidence. Mary made her husband clean the bathroom make means forced (he did not want to do it) Neve heard of that...

Hello Josh, welcome to English Forums! I think you have to break down the verbal structures into auxiliary verbs + part of main verb, e.g. I was having a bath = was + present participle when the phone rang = simple past tense MrP