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Tanglish wrote: Hi all, I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses???? Thanks!!!!

When we use the exact words of the speaker or writer are used it's called quoted speech. If a statement is put into reported speech, the reporting verb is usually in the simple past and the verb in the reported statement is usually changed to a past tense. Simple past ----------------> ...

Pemmican wrote:As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present...

Sorry Victory, I think the present progressive is correct here. We use the present progressive in this case as a form of command (albeit a very polite one) You are correct that the seller's request was made in the past, but the guests read the notice when they arrive, i.e. it is the present for...

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these gives eight tense-aspect combinations, sometimes...

Hi Jim, no, I'm not asking you to do my homework. Yes, I have some tasks to work on and I got some questions about it. Because in my group we got some different answers for these sentences, then, how I trust the answers that I get from this forum I decided to check it. In sentences 1 and 2 I...

As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present participle d)...