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Thanks for confirming what I got right, and what I got wrong, appreciated :).I'll try the answers so, but just to let you bear in mind, when it comes to tenses, I have to choose between the following options:Present PerfectPresent SimplePresent ProgressivePast SimpleAnd...obviously Past,...

Hi everybody,Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions "simple present" and "simple past", although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, past progressive, past...

Hi everybody,I'm a teacher of English at a German Grammar School and after 12 years of experience I'm still wondering about the following puzzle:Why do all the Grammar books stick to the "confusing" expressions simple past and simple present, although it seems quite more logical...

Grammar Geek wrote: Use the present progressive if you want to talk about something that happened while you were chatting. We were having a chat as we waited/while we were waiting, and it occurred to us that... or We were having a chat, and we realized that... Hi So, I understand...