Hello. By 1878 +past perfect (or past perfect progressive) or past simple (or past continuous)? Thanks.

Hello, pm039. Both tenses your examples are possible in appropriate in an context, though the examples with the Present Perfect need a little correction: "The engine in _the_ car (if you mean a certain car) has not been working. Now it works

Hi everybody, Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions "simple present" and "simple past", although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect,

As for substituting 'yesterday' for 'Monday' again, yes, both work with no difference (aside from the amount of time that's passed). Hi I thought that using "yesterday" with the present perfect

Hao Thai: "Now could you please do the same for past perfect, present perfect, future perfect, and their associated progressive cousins?" Ok, but that'll take some time. PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE Yesterday at 9:30 I had been eating for 5

Helo, Kooyeen. «I think... 30 seconds is too little to trigger a past perfect... well, generally speaking. In this case I wouldn't use the a past perfect after 30 seconds, maybe I could (if I wanted) after one or two hours. In other cases

Mister Micawber: «In the first case, you are finished thinking; in the second case, you are not.» If to take possible contexts into consideration, I disagree: Past Simple, but he's still thinking (at the moment of speech): 1.

Tanglish wrote: Hi all, I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses????

Mister Micawber wrote: Present Perfect Continuous/Progressive - used for actions or events that started in the past but are still happening now, or for past actions which only recently finished and their effects are seen now No, this is a

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it?