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Simple Past vs. Present Perfect: "was" vs. "has been" : As a English non-native speaker it is difficult for me to understand when I must use present perfect or past simple because in my official language there isn't the present perfect tense. I know that present perfect is related to something that happened in the past but its result is important now. But for instance: The message has been sent.
Past simple vs past perfect; British- vs American English : The Oxford Companion is not conjuring up this difference out of thin air: there is a common usage with the present perfect and an American option for the past simple, but only in one particular usage. The English present perfect combines tense ? an action/state in the past ? with aspect. The action/state of the verb may
Present perfect vs. passive voice - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange : The former, present simple passive voice, an erroneous usage, most often by Asian second language students who innately fail to grasp the perfect tense due to its conspicuous absence in their own native language, a fact reflected by the fact that less than 1% or only band 8.0 or above students in the IELTS exam can grok, the latter, correct usage of the perfect tense, indicating the completion ...
past tense - Present Perfect with the word "ago"? - English Language ... : The present perfect tense, as you asked about, is when Event 1 (your parents opening a restaurant) happened at an unspecified time before Event 2 (your present conversation). The reason that there is obfuscation and confusion is because of "a few weeks ago".
Why do American people use simple past instead of present perfect with ... : We use the present perfect simple to refer to events in the past but which connect to the present. We often use present perfect for talking about something which happened in the past which is important now. we often use general time expressions like ever, never, before, in my life, so far, up until now with this use of the present perfect simple:
tenses - Past Perfect vs. Present Perfect - English Language & Usage ... : I have been working on these two sentence corrections that ask about Present Perfect, Past Perfect and the Simple Past. They have been a little confusing. During the 1950s, the Detroit area emerges as a metropolitan region with the construction of an extensive freeway system that had expanded in ensuing decades.
american english - When will "Present Perfect vs. Past Tense" cases be ... : This could be the very beginning of a semantic shift in the present perfect construction in English. Perhaps (2) will be preferred in several hundred years. (Such things are not unheard of; German now uses the present perfect form to indicate simple past in speech.)
Past Simple and Present Perfect - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange : We must remember that the Present Perfect can also be used to express an action that started in the past and continues in the present. In this case, the words "since" and "for", among others, can be used. In my opinion, "back then, at that time, when I was young" are expressions that express a kind of past that is defined.
writing - Present perfect or past simple while telling a story ... : I'm writing my story in English and I still have a hard time with present perfect and past simple. For instance in the sentences below I'm recounting something that happened in the past and ended in the past, but in the sentences there are no "finished time" words. I?ve searched for answers in books, religions, psychology, spiritual groups.
grammar - past tense vs. present perfect? - English Language & Usage ... : When I first saw this rule, I was a little bit confused. "Grammar for English Language Teachers" (Martin Parrot) -"We occasionally choose to use the present perfect simple with expressions of finished time (I have seen him yesterday) because, despite the adverb yesterday, we feel that the event is within a present time period.