By Present tenses, Past perfect

.Very wrong. These are fine:I have never seen her before.I never saw her before.I never see her anymore.I'll never see her anymore..

thanks for the timely reply! you're superb active. thanks!!i agreed to almost all of your answers!however, my grammar text states that past perfect tense can be used to show an action that was completed some time ago. The example given is Joan had gone to England.So i was wondering whether if...

.1) we form the Present Perfect tense with "has/have"+ the past participle. It is used to show:a) actions that have been completed recently.-- Yes, that is one use 2) we form the Past Perfect Tense with "had" + the past participle. It is used to showa) an action that...

Hi Mentors, Tutors and Native English Speakers/writersCan i say: 1) we form the Present Perfect tense with "has/have" 2) we form the Past Perfect Tense with "had" + the past participle. It is used to show: ...

There are several studies which have described that term.There were several studies which had described that term.Sometimes we use "studies" to describe the research process, and sometimes to describe the report of the reasearch and of the conclusions.When speaking of the report,...

Interesting. The tense switch did not occur to me as a possible problem. There is certainly no implied if, as in if you (ever) dared to dream (such a situation) -- not to my ear.I would say it's an abbreviated way of saying situation that you have never dared to dream.never seems to...

He bought a parrot that the seller said it would repeat every word he uttered. Contented, he went home and but later found it didn't say a word. Furious, he went back to the owner and asked him what had happened. The owner answered that he had not lied (didn't lie OK??) to the man. The...

1. Well, "had" is the past tense of the verb "have", but I think you're asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs: I played -- simple past tense I have played -- present perfect tense I had played -- past perfect (or...

I walked to the nurse desk and asked for a bottled water and one of the nurses told me that I couldn't take any liquid before surgery. Instead, she told me to get some rest. I walked back to my room and told my mom. Mom said, "Sounds like she knows what she's talking about."...

Hi MapleThere is nothing about the word 'for' that should suggest that you need to use the 'past perfect'. If that's a "rule" you've learned somewhere along the line, I strongly suggest you try to "unlearn" it fast. The word 'for' can be used...