By Teaching English, Simple past

Hello, Hoa Thai. As always, it's been interesting to read through your post! «The issue we have been dealing with here boils down to one question – “In one sentence, grammatically and semantically, could we use both simple past and present perfect for one item?”» I wouldn't say so,...

Dear all, For whatever its worth – Here is my opinion as I promised to deliver: The issue we have been dealing with here boils down to one question – “In one sentence, grammatically and semantically, could we use both simple past and present perfect for one item?” Evidently, the...

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...

<...Why are we inventing a grammmatical category where none exists? Why not just say that the form in 2 is the simple past?...> Many "grammatical categories" in English depend on function, rather than form. In teaching English, for instance, it makes sense to talk of "you" as both the...

Hello Robsee, welcome to English Forums! This is the version I would choose: 'He taught¹ English for two months, when he was living² in Germany and working³ as a journalist.' From the 'basic version', we can see that the purpose of this sentence is to provide two levels of information: 1) the...

Hallo, ich habe da ein Problem mit einem Satz der in der Grundform steht. Meine Aufgabe ist es entweder Simple Past oder Past progressive zu verwenden, je nach Bedarf. Ich war mir aber bei diesem Satz nicht sicher und fragte ein paar Leute. Das Resultat waren drei verschiedene Meinungen. Ich...

School of English means English school School for English means the purpose of setting up the school is for teaching English. He went outside. ( simple past tense ) He had gone outside when you came in. ( past participle ) He was gone. ( gone - a past particple used as an adjective to denote...