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It occurs to me, MrP, that I may be off your point, (i.e., change of tense). If the Q & A were like this-- "MrQ, I haven't seen you for a few days. Have you been away?""Yes, we went to Malta last week. We only got back this morning." It would not sound odd to me.

Hello Mowgli Mowgli wrote: I would prefer past simple "Where were you?" because B isn´t abroad or away any more, they couldn´t have this conversation otherwise.To me, "I went to Malta for a 3 week holiday" sounds natural as the answer. I interpret A might ask "Where have you been?" because A...

Well, I'm not that comfortable with B's answer to A. Logically, the answer uses the same tense as the question. Could be "I've just come back from a 3-week holiday in Malta", or 'Oh, I've been places... I went to Malta, Belgium, South Africa, so I haven't been here much..." Wait for a native's...

Pandora, Please argue constructively. Why do you hate Bush? Why do you hate Americans? What has Bush done that is any different from the next national leader? I think the fact that the Americans are so ubiquitous makes them an ideal candidate for irrationally targeted hate. When people are...

Hi Manikandan, The Perfect Tense is a very large topic, though I'll try to explain some of the basic rules to you about the Present Perfect. (I did the Past Perfect in a recent post) The Perfect tense consists of HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE and it is used in the following cases: 1. An action that...