By Tenses, Grammar

No, my understanding this time is right. Then I believe this part of my grammar book must be wrong. I'd really like to ask further into this question. Allow me to write a new post to discuss it. Thank you, Mr. Wordy. You've helped me a lot!

Hello, Mr. Wordy, may I ask one more question? One of my grammar boooks gives the following interpretation: It's a long time since he lived there. (It suggests "He does not live there for a long time.") It's a long time since he has lived there. (It suggests "He lives...

.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.

Hello,I am the one who posed the original question (not anonymous now). Mr. Micawber, you chose "He provided service from August 2006 to August 2008". Is this necessarily wrong, "He has provided service since August 2006" ? We are printing the award in July, so, it is not a...

Hi,I was listening to some types of speeches and have some questions.1.When someone says this, does he have to make it known that it is quoted? Not if he doesn't want to. Such 'rules' are not governed by grammar. A teacher, for example, may insist that a student identify every...

Actually, within an hour after posting that joke to the "southerners", I learned from a friend exactly what a "bodice ripper" is. I should have known, since until recently I often posed for artists making covers for those books.

I think in speaking, it is OK to use "It's". Correct me If I'm wrong. But written in full, it should be "It was ... "

Some people cannot afford new computers, so they buy used ones. I had the money to buy a new computer, so I bought a new one. Now I have not enough money to buy a brand-new one.

Tense is a form assumed by a verb to show the time in which an event occurs and the degree of completeness of such event at the time of its occurrence. To decide on which tense is more suitable will depend on a given situation. In a situation where you are required to compare tourist arrivals in...

Hello, everyone. My grammar book says the following example is true: I've been wanting to visit Paris all my life. The book says "normally want cannot be used in progrssive tense, but it does in this case (present perfect continuous tense)" (p.s. The book is not written by a...