By Perfect progressive, Past simple

Hi I thought that using "yesterday" with the present perfect progressive is not quite correct. I always associate it with the past simple.

HI I WANT TO KNOW WHICH ONE IS CORRECT: WHILE HE WAS READING THE BOOK, HIS UNCLE CAME BACK. OR WHILE HE HAD BEEN READING THE BOOK, HIS UNCLE CAME BACK. AND TELL ME ANY WEBSITE WHERE I COULD POST MINE QUESTIONS REAGARDING ENGLISH .................AND I CAN GET THE ANSWERS OF THOSE...

Hao Thai:"Now could you please do the same for past perfect, presentperfect, future perfect, and their associated progressivecousins?"Ok, but that'll take some time. PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVEYesterday at 9:30 I had been eating for 5 minutes. |<----------------->| ...

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 I could not use it until some days are passed, for...

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. I can't solve this problem! I was thinking yesterday at...

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???? Thanks!!!!

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 nowNo, this is a definition for Present Perfect.Present Perfect - used to...

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? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

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? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last...