I just want to point out the word "could" is indicative of the subjunctive mood Modal verbs don't have tenses and moods in the way that other verbs do. could certainly acts like a past subjunctive in If I could help you, I would.

Hello. For how to form the past simple you can have a look at this article - Past Simple Rules If you need help pronouncing the past this will be very helpful - Past Simple Pronunciation I hope these help.

We should have been there by now! Is this sentence is 'Present Perfect' form? No. I would call it a modal perfect. Some books call it a modal verb followed by a bare perfect infinitive. He used to have crocked teeth. ( crooked ) This

Basically the past simple is for completed actions that have finished in the past and the past perfect describes actions that finished up to a certain point in the past. This is also known as the past of the past. For example - "I ate two

Hi Anon: If you look in any English language reference book under verb tenses, you will find the answer to your question. "be" is a helping verb (auxilliary) for the passive voice of verbs, and "have" is the helping verb for

In the interrogative and the negative of the simple past tense, the 'past indicator' is in the helping verb: I did not even belong in this..........

Ate is the simple past tense. Eaten is past participle, which is used with a helping verb to indicate an action already completed by some point of time in the past ( have eaten is present perfect form becasue action is completed by now, had eaten

Hi, In your example, "has" and "have" are both in the same time frame, or "tense." The mail has been sent in the recent past. This tense is called "present perfect." "Perfect" means the action is

I think your question is what does it mean when one says "I have had," or "I had had" because no one can say I had have." I have had is a present perfect of to have The present perfect is a 2 part present tense starting

I don't know much about phrasal verbs (they hadn't yet been invented when I was in school), but I take "graduated" as a simple verb in the simple past tense, and "with first-class honors" as a prepositional phrase,