Hi, Here is a sentence from CGOEL: We’ve already discussed it yesterday. The Present Perfect refers to the past until now, so you should reword the sentence this way. We discussed it yesterday. We have already discussed it

Here is a sentence from CGOEL: We’ve already discussed it yesterday. It should be We already discussed it yesterday. And the discussion is over. It is anomalous to use the present perfect ( 've discussed ) with an adverb indicating a

i would like to know two things. the first one is : the past participle of the verb "go", is it "been"? ex: i have been to London. have you ever been to London? i think that "go" in this case has irregular form

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. Problem 1: img687.imageshack.us/img687/4138/testnx.jpg It's much easier for us to respond if you actually post the question here. Most of us don't want to go off and start searching other sites. It takes

I shouldn't have ate it. Or I shouldn't have eaten it. What's the difference? The second sentence is present perfect so is the first sentence simple past tense?

She's had to do a lot of work. = She has had to do a lot of work. "She has has to do a lot of work" doesn't make sense. It's Present Perfect tense here, which means you need the construction "to have + past participle". More examples: I have

Hi all, I'm back from a loong holiday :-) Now I'm teaching English again, and I'm running into trouble... At the school I teach (Dutch school) we use a book that's not always as clear as it should be. Even I don't always

Please read the paragraph below: He saw a man baking delicious cakes. "What a nice smell," the man said. Eating his bread, he breathed in the smell for some time. When he rose to continue his journey, the baker suddenly ran across

1. There is no objection to the use of time words with the past perfect tense. The objection is when these words are used with the present perfect tense. You may, however, if you wish, replace "last week" with "the previous

One extra point I want to make which is when you add the adverb "regularly" to the sentence, it will skew the meaning which was intended. Consider this: A- I sent you an email earlier, did you get it? B- I am checking my