By Simple past, Universities

.I have underlined some problem areas. One point-- usually, you should use simple past tense where you have used present perfect:Motivation Letter:The Graduate programme in Finance at Hampton College is according my target to develop my skills on the financial field for a knowledge improvement...

Hello, Hoa Thai. Although Goodman outstripped me and deserved the brave one's laurels, I'd like to add some of the comments which I had started typing yesterday in the university, but hadn't time to finish... Your reasonong is interesting but not fault-less. «As CalifJim clearly explains...

... her his help. <<Are the books we ordered/have ordered used by any other university here? Simple past or present perfect or both with different meanings? It seems to me that discourse grammar forces the use of "have ordered" because the question is in the present and the...

Cali has always given lucid explanations and I am very indebted to her help. I have a question here not so much about sentence level but about discourse level. First, look at this sentence: Are the books we ordered/have ordered used by any other university here? Simple past or present...

Hi Musesun"This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden".Have you learned how to make...

Yankee wrote:Hi PuccaAnd, as Marius also mentioned, we Americans tend to use the simple past tense somewhat more often than our British cousins do. Who says? Don't confuse EFLese with English. They are two completely different things. Most EFL writers, Michael Swann included, ridiculously...

Hi Bokeh, Becasue of your reply, it made me take a second look at the original question. I also did some research and found this paper written on the subject of Semantic Composition of Subjunctive Conditionals by Michela Ippolito of MIT/Tübingen University. I am not completely sure if I...

Calive wrote:This is the headline from the brochure of a leading car maker: Isn't it time you shift to a smarter drive? In my opinion, the correct sentence would be: Isn't it time you shifted to a smarter drive? OK, I've consulted several very educated native speakers, just to eliminate my...

It is time you shift uses the subjunctive shift, as with require/demand verbs: It is required that you shift which has the (mainly) BrE equivalent of It is required that you should shift (see Swan, Practical English Usage, Subjunctive, Should) I think your version could be also valid,...

Here is my, a non-native speaker's, understanding of the problem. «Correspondents say that Mr Sharma made the comments in response to opposition criticism that India had not protested against the "grossly unwarranted" statement from Rome. Is it necessary to say India had not...