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I know that, when you talk about [...]
A big difference between English and many other languages is the way we use our past tenses. They have different ‘meanings’ or ‘feelings’ and it can be difficult to know when to use which past tense. To explain the past tenses and help you practice, I’ve started a new series of eWorksheets called “The Pasts.”
“The [...]
My students know that one of the things I’m picky about is using verb tenses correctly. And, for my German students at least, the pasts seem to be among the most diffifcult things to master in English, because the grammar seems similar to German, but is different. Look at these two sentences:
I have eaten breakfast.
I [...]
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We’ve already talked about the grammar of the present perfect and the simple past. Would you be surprised if I told you that the grammar was the easy part? Talk to any American for twenty minutes and you’ll [...]
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What did you do in your last job? What have you done in this job? Talking about work often means talking about the past. After all, we don’t know what we will do in the future, so [...]
