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Hi Ant222, My English skill is not in the “grammarian” class but I will give it my best attempt to explain it. It may not may not be agreeable with the experts. In many instances during casual conversations, we can bet by with simple past tense and no one will flag you for errors. However, to...

Hi, An explanation, please. Present Perfect tense means past time related to present time and one of its uses is: an action that happened at an indefinite time in the past, e.g.: I have travelled to Athens. But in the sentence: I have read a magazine * today ,how to explain that we don't...

Hello.First of all, I'd say "Penny has climbed before" rather than "Penny has been climbing before". "Before" suggests an action that is not taking place at the moment of speaking, but the present perfect continuous suggests the opposite.Anyway, in the case of...

She is eating dinner for one hour. / She has been eating dinner for one hour.He is watching TV all day. / He has been watching TV all day. It is raining outside. / It has been raining outside. What are you talking about? / What have you been talking about? You can't specify a period...

when it comes to day to day conversation, none of that really matters anymore .. how we express ourselves decides what people see from us. what do you think?

The use of the present perfect says that things are still happening. If you use the second, you are saying that they are no longer happening. Or making them final, in some way. So perhaps... since we last met, I met someone new, we got married, we had a child... these things are completed...

"Zip " is the same as "shut up", or "say mo more". It is probably classified as "urban English". Angry, nah! I just keep nagging until you guys are all driven crazy. I am not sure what you mean by: <<However: «I have seen this movie and I liked it» «I have been to Paris but I didn't see...

Hi, I assume that you are talking about what to say when you are saying goodbye to someone, ie atthe end of a conversation. Can I say I'm pleased that I met you instead of I'm pleased to have met you? Both are OK. Which is more common? Much more common than either is 'It was nice to meet you',...

Here we would probably say "I have a four o'clock appointment with the hairdresser." or "I got a four o'clock appointment with the hairdresser." It’s informal to use ‘got’ alone. ‘Got’ could mean ‘made’ or ‘booked’ as in "I've made (booked) a four o'clock appointment with the hairdresser." It the...

The implication is that these isolated cases are on an imaginary list of things that are relevant to the current conversation. You can think of the present perfect as a kind of "diary tense". If you say, "The use of the cane has resulted in physical injury", you mean that the occurrence of...