By Tenses, Contractions

AHA... Now it makes sense. I don't know whether it's right or not. I think I was told contractions only work for the present tense but I could be wrong. Let's wait for a native.

Sure it does. These contractions can be used for the past tense:"I'd never seen that before" = "I had never seen that before""It's been nice to know you" = "It has been nice to know you"In your case, "It's a pen" always means "It...

Hello, welcome to the forum. No need to say sorry - that's what we are here for You have quite a few problems but nothing major and you are certainly understandable, so you are getting there! I'd say your main problems are verb tenses - for example 'technologies keep evolve'...

It's the present tense. The contraction 's represents is and has but never was. JJM

Encountered is much more formal than met, but both are correct in your sentence. Ran into is not correct in your example, but run into (very informal) would work. (Ran is simple past tense. Have run is an example of the present perfect tense. You've is the contraction for You have.)

There are no contractions of subject pronouns (I, you, ...) with the past tense of to be: was, were. CJ

you forgot some of the most important contraction forms such as ustacud- to have been able to in the past tense yawntu- do you want to jeetyet- an inquisition into someones hunger whatdayalauw- I suppose this means what do you think but it has never really made any sense at...

So that only happens when an L sound (He'll, We'll) or R sound (We're) follows, right? That means "He's" is always "heez", "We'd" is always "weed"... right?Yes. And I don't make any change in the I sound in I, I'm, I've, I'll, or I'd. But just as the /i/ becomes half-tense before R (and to...

In other words, Jackson, in the context of your sentence, 'shown' can only be understood as being in the past. However, you can also use 'shown' this way:When shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie. = When I am shown to be wrong, I have to eat humble pie.Now there is a present tense meaning...

Hi BW2/3,The goal of an editor is to correct and clarify, not to change the structure and meaning so much that the original writer's "essense" is removed. Let's take these one at a time:I am truly sorry what I'd written to you a compassion love letter a couple years ago. And here are my...