In many sentences that might formally require the present perfect, the simple past is fine in conversational English. For example: " I never felt this way about any girl before" -- fine in conversation, but I wouldn't use this

Hi, I made some changes to your text and corrected a few grammar errors. Hopefuly someone else will do additional proofreading. The text is lengthy so please be patient. 1.The most interesting experience in my life was moving from

'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

Hey Renan, I can just tell you that some Americans DO use the simple past with already, yet, ever/never. I clearly remember a post in the pronunciation section where there was a video from the TV series Lost, and a guy asked a girl "Did you

So, is it a matter of regionalism? - No, not with this question . 3) " Did you ever before?" -- I would not use this.- Actually, this is not proper English. Have you ever lived in an English speaking country before? This says: from the

In that case, I would also use present pefect, especially because of the "yet." Another situation - you are babysitting your brother and your parents are out for the evening. Your mom calls at 9 p.m. and asks how things are going.

. If a group has been talking about the Statute of Liberty at length and how the French have played part in American history in early days, could it make it possible for a person to use the present perfect as has been in the sentence? --

Thank you. How would the sentence differ from these? Why the sentences I introduced are in present perfect (if they are correctly written)? If a group has been talking about the Statute of Liberty at length and how the French have played part in

The problem might be the verb "broadcast." The past form can be "broadcasted" or "broadcast". I am American and most often use the first form. In England or other English-speaking places, you might hear the other

Some time ago, I had a similar discussion on the verbs being “open” and "closed" with several forumers which went off line, escalating to private messages in the form of nasty gram, basically suggesting that my view was lacking