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Hi,First thing first, let's give the verb forms their correct names. was purchased >> past simple, passive had struggled >> past perfect is purchased >> present simple, passiveThe time sequence in your example sentence is something like this: 1. in the...

Hi, CliveIt's high time you learnt Polish. But seriously, my English isn't very good so it was easier for me to write it in Polish.Generally it can be said that:If you give the date you use Past SimpleIf things happened in the past but you don't know exactly when or it doesn't make any difference...

Spocik wrote: The present perfect is used when the time is not specific: I have seen that movie already. (We don't know when.) Sam sobie odpowiedziales. Gdy podaje się dokladna date - stosujemy czas przeszly prosty (Past simple).Jesli zdarzenie nastapilo w przeszlosci, ale nie wiadomo dokladnie...

The basic form is a common technique in constructing time lines or time charts: listing the date and state the event in simple present; and that is the form that most of these verbs in your excerpt take-- simple present active or passive. 'Using a 50 power refractor that he designed himself,...