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

Hi, Very generally speaking, 1. When " do " is the main verb of a sentence in the simple present and the subject is in the third singular person (" he/she/it "). She always does her homework in the afternoon. -- He usually

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

Hi, Sarah, Hopefully you'll get better replies than mine on this. 1. Sorry I didn't show up. I received an email saying the meeting had been canceled. "Didn't show up" and "received" are simple past. "Had been

You have adverbs that identify bounded periods of time. These would normally contradict the simple present, which is almost timeless, so you have to use the continuous aspect. We [always / usually / frequently / often / sometimes / ... eat in the

Hello everybody, I would like you to know whether it is correct to use either the present continious tense or the simple present tense in the following sentences and if so which option would be more appropriate : 1. We're eating / eat in the

Hi, We have an estimated gain of $100 for value date 11/30/08. Could you please further explain why I can't say "have estimated"? I thought when you use the "have/has" + Past Participle it is considered to be in the

3a) A cat ate the small animal. 3b) A cat is a small animal. The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP). In 3a) “a cat

If it's correct to say: I'm learning Spanish instead of I learn Spanish , the correct question is Are you learning Spanish? or Are you learning languages? instead of Do you learn Spanish? or Do you learn languages? Yes. The correct

Hello CalifJim! Thank you very much for your thorough and to the point explanations, they are always very helpful and I appreciate it a lot I have one more question, however. If it's correct to say: I'm learning Spanish instead of I