You have used double past tenses, and I really would recommend that you do not use short forms because the tenses go haywire .. I did not got time is wrong because the words "did not" is always followed by the present tense..i.e.I did

Short answer: Yes, but i'm not as likely to use it that way. Opti is the faster typist - he posted 2 minutes before I did! Maybe he'll give his opinion too, but if someone said "I've been sick" (remember in the

it is an action verb, which justifies the use of have in simple past as a substitution of present perfective in American English Please explain why this might be so. I see no relationship between the two uses. The sentence under consideration

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. So, if the line is in the present tense, you say "It has been exaxtly five years since her father died" but not so in the past tense? Um, someone has just introduced me to a Longman link

'have had' is the present perfect construction which, in this case, expresses result. Therefore, we call it the resultative present perfect tense – the result being that employees are left with positive feelings, or a positive working

Please, can you check my post about something similar to this problem? It's a conditional with the "would" + present perfect in the IF-clause, where we are to use past perfect. I commented at the other thread:

Thanks folks, but I think I still have some doubts (or should I rather say I'm still having some doubts or I'm still not getting it or I don't get it???) Look at this sentence that is uttered by an professor of European thought in the

She speaks with an American accent because she has been living there. He used present perfect continuous tense here. Does it mean that he must still live there now.-- Yes She speaks with an American accent because she had been living there. He

Could anybody correct my ideas of present perfect tense and past perfect tense? She speaks with an American accent because she has been living there. He used present perfect continuous tense here. Does it mean that he must still live there now.

I profess that I am a thief. Okay, but "confess" would be more common. To acknowledge I profess like a father. My American Heritage gives this meaning (intransitive), but I've never heard it. There are common religious meanings,