In Present tenses^x, Contractions^x

AHA... Now it makes sense. I don't know whether it's right or not. I think I was told contractions only work for the present tense but I could be wrong. Let's wait for a native.

It's the present tense. The contraction 's represents is and has but never was. JJM

In other words, Jackson, in the context of your sentence, 'shown' can only be understood as being in the past. However, you can also use 'shown' this way:When shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie. = When I am shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie.Now there is a present tense meaning...

Hi BW2/3,The goal of an editor is to correct and clarify, not to change the structure and meaning so much that the original writer's "essense" is removed. Let's take these one at a time:I am truly sorry what I'd written to you a compassion love letter a couple years ago. And here are my...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got". ...