Here's how it should be: Jackson would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday this August if he were alive . Jackson would have celebrated his fiftieth birthday this August if he had not died earlier this year . There are a

1. I wish I had more time to finish this exercise - SIMPLE PAST - PRESENT 2. When you have finished , you can go home - PRESENT SIMPLE present perfect (have) - FUTURE 3. 'Major calls for peace summit' (headline) - PRESENT

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

Here are some Present - Past pairs: Simple present - Simple past Present progressive - Past progressive Present perfect - Past perfect Present perfect progressive - Past perfect progressive (Simple) Future (of the Present) (will) - ( Simple)

Huygen, By reading your post, something tells me that your English level should be beyond the question you just asked, and able to categorize the tenses already. There are 3 basic tenses: Simple past – present – future There are past

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past

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????

Matt0915 wrote: 3. Why is, I have been watching my neighbor dig a hole all day in Present Progressive, BUT I watched my neighbor dig a hole all day yesterday not in Past Progressive? I have been watching my neighbor dig a hole all day is

When we use the exact words of the speaker or writer are used it's called quoted speech . If a statement is put into reported speech , the reporting verb is usually in the simple past and the verb in the reported statement is usually changed to