By Tenses, Past perfect

Hi again, Thank you so much again.Here,Your correction:"If John comes home about an hour later, he will be looking for me to play chess with him and when he finds out I am not there, he will be disappointed," I think. Do you have a question about this? Yes,but does it have to be...

Thank you so much again.Here,Your correction:"If John comes home about an hour later, he will be looking for me to play chess with him and when he finds out I am not there, he will be disappointed," I think. Do you have a question about this? Yes,but does it have to be "will"?...

Hi,I had a little trouble understanding your questions in this post, I'm afraid. It sometimes confused me whether I should use a past perfect or not in these situations>Your correction:I am sitting at a corner table in a restaurant. It is raining, and I am wondering what might have...

My two cents: If you ask me, the term optional may be confusing you. To me, the past perfect tense is not used as frequently as the simple past tense and if you just mean to eat, you use it. It is you who should decide whether the context of your text should give importance to difference...

Hi,Please take a look at this and tell me if the past perfect tenses can be past tenses, eventhough the past perfect tenses would make sequences more clear. I am confused as to under what circumstances we don't absolutely/necessarily have to use a past perfect. When is leaving it for readers...

Thank you. It sometimes confused me whether I should use a past perfect or not in these situations>Your correction:I am sitting at a corner table in a restaurant. It is raining, and I am wondering what might have happened if I had done this or that or hadn't done this or that. If I had...

Simple Present: I study English Present Continuous: I am studying English Present Perfect: I have studied English Present Perfect Continuous: I have been studying English Simple Past: I studied English Past Perfect: ? Past Prefect Continuous:? Future: I will study English Future Continuous:...

It's interesting. To me it seems that both the authors are correct.In the example about talking children the tense doesn't matter much because it's evident anyway that the coming of the teacher was the reason for the children to stop thier chatter, which they apparently did just at...

Hello, everyone. One of my grammar books says both past perfect and simple past tense mean the same thing in the following example: When the teacher had arrived, they stopped talking.=When the teacher arrived, they stopped talking. But my another book says they don't mean the same thing. It...

Present perfect is used when some action happened in the past but result remains now, action completed in the recent past but result not finished yet,and past perfect is used when any action happened before another past action.