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Hi AvangiTo me, the word 'if' is used like 'whenever' in your sentence, and the word 'will' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on vacation)....

Hi MarvinI made my comment about the present perfect because I think it would be far more likely for someone speaking AmE to use the simple past tense (I broke a/my tooth or I broke one of my teeth), and because I felt quite sure that the simple past tense is what I'd use most often in a sentence...

Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so just use Simple Past...

Clive wrote: Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so just...

Hi again, You stated the document number earlier. You had stated the document number earlier. I don't think there is any difference in meaning between those two. The only difference is that the first one is simple past tense, and the other is past perfect tense... There's a lot of...

BeginStudent wrote:The answers from n2g 100% correct ? if yes i have question in number two sentence : -When have they told you? - why did you changed it to present prefect continuous ? Hi MosheYes, all of New2grammar's answers are 100% correct.New2grammar correctly used the simple past...

But since an economic boom in the 1980s, large numbers of rural Turks moved to the cities, forming a new Islamic middle class with its own wealthy elite. (NYTimes) Why the Simple Past Tense? Why not the Present Perfect?

Hi KooyeenWith the words already and just, we tend to use the simple past tense quite often in AmE.So, instead of "I've just called Jim." we'd usually say "I just called Jim". I'm really not sure if the use of the simple past tense in that sentence would sound at all odd to British ears, but I...

Forum_mail wrote:Hello!1. Jean _______ (visit) Gracelands, the house where Elvis _______ (suffer) his fatal heart attack, twice in the past few years. I don't know why but tke answer key gives "has visited" while I would say "visited" since there is "in the past few years", a closed period that...

Forum_mail wrote:Hello!1. Jean _______ (visit) Gracelands, the house where Elvis _______ (suffer) his fatal heart attack, twice in the past few years. I don't know why but tke answer key gives "has visited" while I would say "visited" since there is "in the past few years", a closed period that...