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Velimir:Sorry I did not understand your question. Here are some comments on the verb tenses in your sentences1a) Whenever you've sent us your goods, we have received your documents related to the delivery when the truck has already set off . you've sent: You have sent is present...

Hello everybody,I had to write some business correspondence recently and I got stuck at the early beginning in the mesh of time clauses and verb tenses. Here's the sentence I would like you to check in various verb tense - options and to give some brief comment if possible. I start with what...

That's one of those BrE/AmE things, I think. Very generally, we form the negative with the "do" form for simple present and simple past. I run every morning, I don't run every morning. Certainly "I runn't" is wrong. I baked these cookies myself, I didn't...

? which is wrong. Although it is ambiguous, there is an interpretation which is grammatically correct, so the sentence is acceptable. (Nevertheless, I think it is preferable to rephrase it because of the ambiguity, and I showed you how to do that above with the phrase last night's...

Hi there. Welcome to EF.The differense between them happens to be interchangeable in some informal way or in narratives. We use Past Simple along with Present Perfect when we're talking about events happened in the past, but Present Perfect points that event may occur in the present again.He...

Hello, everyone: I don't understand the following paragraph, cited from a grammar book, could you help me please?"there is an idiomatic exception to the rule that the simple past tense indicates definite meaning: this is the construction with "always" illustrated by "I...

Summary of drink... Verb forms of drink: drink, drinking, drank, drunkSimple present: I drink, you drink, he drinks...Simple past: I drank, you drankProgressive: I am drinking, I was drinking, I will be drinkingPresent perfect/progressive: I have drunk,... I have been drinkingPast...

1) Where are you? I've been waiting for 2 hours2) I needn't have brought that milkI = subjectneed have bought = verb; present perfect tense, modal form (need is the auxiliary), buy is the main verb, bought is the past participle.not - adverb that - demonstrative pronoun refering to...

Hi, Why would we consider the participle an adjective in the simple present and a verb in the present perfect?Sorry, that seat's been taken.What do we call it in the simple past?Sorry, that seat was taken.Is there no passive in the simple present? What am I missing? (I am devastated!)Many...

Yes. I see the present perfect as a possible alternative to the simple past for the verb sell. Nevertheless, once I start with a simple past, I think I tend to continue using the simple past through the rest of the sentence.CJ