By Simple past, Tenses

Are you sure that you copied those right-hand sentences correctly? Neither of them is good English, except, unusually, in the context of a present-tense narrative, which I can't imagine is the intention here (and in any case would not lead to correct interpretations of the sentences in...

That "if" clause is not in the past. When you use the simple past tense in the "if" it is still possible that the "if" clause could be fulfilled.

.You are printing a certificate which states a factual event in historical time. The verb tense you use has nothing to do with when you conceive, print or present the certificate. Use the simple past with the date service began and the date service finished.

Hi, If I say: "You sent it to me", is that correct? Or do I have to say "You have sent it to me"? Let me ask you to consider these two examples.I cooked dinner. Describes a simple past event. Maybe I did this 30 minutes ago, or 30 years ago.I have cooked dinner. This describes...

Hello, everyone: For the phrase "in the past", "during the past ten years..." , and "within these few days" I've check my dictionaries and searched in the Internet, and I found that they tend to use "present perfect". So I'm wondering if they could...

.All such uses, when correctly applied, relate the past event to the present situation in some way-- that is the general boundary of the use of the present perfect verb aspect.The original poster wished to introduce a person, including indicating that the person was a college graduate: here,....

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...

There's no corresponding form.having lived is a participial expression, a non-finite form, so it can't express the full range of tenses that a finite verb form can.(The same problem occurs with infinitives. The infinitives do not cover the full range of tenses.)CJ

This one's a stinker. You could argue that "My natural answer" and "My instinct" amount to the same thing.My position is that although your instinct may be called a continuing condition, on this particular occasion it "spoke" to you only once, in response to the...

.Oh, I can always find something else (but I may have messed up your formatted columns):Lesson PlanPreparation Level : Elementary Lesson Length: 45 minutes Objective: To be able to use the Past Simple question forms and short answers. Target Language: did + subject + base form of verb ( Did...