Hi, How could we tell if a participle in what looks like a past perfect progressive tense is a participle part of the tense or an adjective of a past perfect tense construction? The cook had been making cake all day until he was called by the head

Hi, How could we tell if a participle in what looks like a past perfect progressive tense is a participle part of the tense or an adjective of a past perfect tense construction? The cook had been making cake all day until he was called by the head

User_gary wrote: It is two years since you were married. I learnt that since is used only with perfect tenses' e.g. (present perfect, present perfect progressive, ...........etc.) But in the above sentence it has been used with simple

Hello, Pastel. Almost every sentence (not all of them) that contains a direct object can be turned into the passive voice. However, not every possible passive construction is actually used in English. Some tenses -such as the future perfect

I'm surprised your book doesn't have a little chart of the tenses you can refer to. Try to find a chart of tenses. It will make life easier for you. The "going to" tense isn't really a tense, but if it's one of the choices, just look for the

As others have said, it all depends on what you ... count - simple present I am counting - present progressive The difference between those two is? "I count" = 'I generally count; counting is in my repertoire of actions (I may not be