Hi, It begins present simple tense ( begin -began-begun) It is beginning present progressive tense ( begin -began-begun) It began past simple tense ( begin - began -begun) It has/had begun present/past perfect

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,

Hi everybody, I'm a teacher of English at a German Grammar School and after 12 years of experience I'm still wondering about the following puzzle: Why do all the Grammar books stick to the "confusing" expressions simple past and

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????

John is working (PRESENT PROGRESSIVE) hard. I saw (PAST SIMPLE) him last week. I was having (PAST PROGRESSIVE) a bath when the phone rang (PAST SIMPLE). Isabel had finished (PAST PERFECT) her lunch when I arrived (PAST SIMPLE). Nigel lives

Look through the following sentences and select the TENSE and the time reference used. first options are: past simple, present perfect, present progressive, present simple secon options are: past, present, future 2. I wish I had more

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

Exercise 2 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 year. Past simple 2. The shop on

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these