Yes, I used the present perfect instead of the past perfect. I had had my pc reformatted before I bought a new monitor. (but the simple past will do just fine here)

I did this on my own, but no answers were provided. I found these from various websites. Can you guys verify these for me? I mainly have problems with identifiing comma splice, run-on sentences, and some tenses identifications. I did them and I

If we want to dig deep into the conditionals and subjunctives, they can get confusing and messy. But focusing on the 3 types of conditional alone, both sentences do not have the right mixes in their elements to be qualified as conditionals as they

Could you tell me whether following sentences are correct or not? Thanks. == If it rained now, I wouldn't go fishing. If it were raining now, I wouldn't go fishing. If it rain now, I would't go fishing.

Up until the last sentence you are telling the story in chronological order, so the simple past is fine. In the last sentence, I assume you mean he went outside before you arrived. In that case, yes, you need the past perfect to "step back in

In conclusion, it seems that simple past is better in this case but present perfect is not impossible.

Throughout the book this author uses the present tense, and that's fine (Although a lot of novels use the past tense, some use the present as this one) Now, what's perplexing me is she uses the past perfect without a point of reference in

Did + past participle (told) isn't possible so it could be: The simple past: What did she tell you? The present perfect: What has she told you? (if the action has taken place just now!) The past perfect: What had she told you?

Please visit these sites for your particular question(s): http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/conditional_special.htm http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences They should help you. If you have some

b) Jim is back home now. He has been to Italy. (= he has now come back) ...he went there and it is in the past.-- That's right, so simple past or present perfect are the choices. Past perfect is used to sequence two past events, not a past event