By Tenses, Football

I have highlighted errors. You use "he" and "your" and "I" so it's not clear who you are talking about. Your capitalization is uneven, and you need to use the past tense.

Hi,Thanks for the reply.By football, I should stress that I meant "soccer", so training in this respect would involve lots of running and so on...

Hi,I'm unsure when we should use these words.For example: "This summer's pre-season training (for football) has been the most intense/intensive I've ever been/gone through"Thanks

1. Well, "had" is the past tense of the verb "have", but I think you're asking specifically about its use as an auxiliary to form the past perfect tense of other verbs: I played -- simple past tense I have played -- present perfect tense I had played -- past perfect (or...

1. When to use "had" ? Since it serves as a past tense but I don't see it being used when it should like ... "I have played football yesterday" which is a sentence in past tense form but why have instead of had ?2. We must make the word after "never" past tense ?...

Hi, Jose Mourinho has ruled himself out of the running to become England coach. The former Chelsea boss revealed he had held talks with the Football Association following Steve McClaren's dismissal last month. But in a statement on his agent's website, Mourinho said: "After serious thought,...

Jose Mourinho has ruled himself out of the running to become England coach. The former Chelsea boss revealed he had held talks with the Football Association following Steve McClaren's dismissal last month. But in a statement on his agent's website, Mourinho said: "After serious thought,...

Can I say, (a) Please get the pencil. Okay (b) Ali, please borrow lend me pencil. (c) He catches one big fish. Okay, but odd in present tense, and odd to use "one" instead of "a" unless you want to contrast it with other numbers. He caught a big fish. He caught one big fish and several...

Hi, I agree "so have I" sounds better but can these work too? Depends what you mean by 'work'. Better to repeat the original tense. They have played football, and so did I. They had played football, and so did I. (instead of "They had played football, and so had I") Best wishes, Clive

Vincent Teo wrote:Can I say, (a) She picked up and opened the wallet. Inside the wallet, there was some money, a passport and some cards. Your tenses must agree. (b) They are speaking to each other over / on / through the house phone. (c) They are kicking a football / kicking with a...