Indeed, carless Miss Jones! Thanks for your help, I'm finally getting there!

Yes you're right with the base words, another example is: Miss Jones lost her car Thursday This is what I got... Miss Jones has lost her cat (present perfect) Miss Jones lost her cat on Thursday (simple past) Am I on the right track here? Thanks

Thanks again (both of you) for your replies. I never was very good at accurate grammar. I guess the thing that tripped me up was trying to use al the sections of the sentence (i.e. Monday) when it was impossible

Hi, I have been asked to form the following sentence into two sentences, one in present perfect and one in simple past: The milkman have accident monday I think its deliberately written to be confusing. In my mind I would say "The milkman