Short answer: Yes, but i'm not as likely to use it that way. Opti is the faster typist - he posted 2 minutes before I did! Maybe he'll give his opinion too, but if someone said "I've been sick" (remember in the

it is an action verb, which justifies the use of have in simple past as a substitution of present perfective in American English Please explain why this might be so. I see no relationship between the two uses. The sentence under consideration

Hi, I need this sentence checked.. please help me point out any grammar mistakes: "Since last time, she has always been in America but she would always travel to many cities with her friend. She would drive and her friend would show her

I profess that I am a thief. Okay, but "confess" would be more common. To acknowledge I profess like a father. My American Heritage gives this meaning (intransitive), but I've never heard it. There are common religious meanings,

Hi HSS I wrote "had seen" instinctively. In other words, I wasn't paying any special attention to which verb tense I used when I wrote the sentence. However, when I look at it again today, that is still the tense I would choose. You

Ever since means "from a time in the past up to the present time." This is used with the present perfect tense (have + past participle), since the action is not finished in the past. The simple past is most common in the clause

Just one more comment on this topic, regarding "never." Sure, we use never and simple past together. I looked for you at the mall all afternoon, but I never saw you. (Reference to a specific period of time.) I was hoping to see

Hi, Kooyeen There you go! So, it's true. Americans sometimes do that! And, as well as you, I prefer the present perfect in those situations rather than the simple past. Thank you very much Kooyeen

Hey Renan, I can just tell you that some Americans DO use the simple past with already, yet, ever/never. I clearly remember a post in the pronunciation section where there was a video from the TV series Lost, and a guy asked a girl "Did you

Hi, pals It's been a long time. I really thank you both. Your answers are more than enough, so clear, so clever. However, I'm confident of what I said. I deal with American, British and other foreigners every day. And, most of them,