By Present perfect, Paragraphs

Hi teachers,I don't understand why the past continuous is used with 'until now 'in the paragraph below: Inner Sanctum: Now you're a rich man thanks to your paintings. Why don't you live in a magnificent house, or a palace with luxurious furniture, instead of resigning...

Mister Micawber, I would like to thank you for the explanation.However, I have found one example of the present perfect tense which used the word "now" in the British council grammar...

This is a good paragraph and the tenses of your verbs are consistent. The only sentence that has a problem is, "We had worked together...and have always had good relationships...even after I have left... That first verb, had worked, is past perfect tense. The rest of the paragraph is...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly explains...

I think the following would be considered a typical Type 3 Conditional. If I had studied hard in college, I would have become a successful person. Yes. This is a typical Type 3 conditional. If ... had ..., would have .... Here, I think would is a modal verb for a clause that...

Hi, everybody! Maybe I should have started with "well," but I can ensure you that I'm the original poster, while this guy Anonymous wrote: Well, I have a half-finished game of noughts and crosses tattooed on my forehead. If you do too, then I guess... is not (but I found his/her post...

Thank you Jim. It seems to me, under the light of the following examples, without context either present perfect (continuous) or simple past can be used, but in most cases these time expressions are used in a context which requires one tense rather than the other. here here here (7th...

«...you said that it should be had been, but IMHO using Present Perfect Continuous is more correct, due to the general usage of this tense - actions or events that began in the past and are lasting til now or have recently ended. Notice that they still work as bus drivers» I wanted to...

hello all I will put (write) here all the general forms of the English grammar tenses as I know (understand ) it, I want you to chek it and correct me. Sometimes there is no form (just a speace), I want you to write the general form of the kind of the tense that is detected. I'm so sorry If...

Hi, 1) "In the late 80s a discussion took place between Julia Annas and Richard Bett over whether ontological moral skepticism is ‘local’ – that is to say, whether it does not call into question all beliefs, but arises from a contrast between morality and some other system of beliefs that cannot...