Also, notice the position of EVER between HAVE/HAS and the past participle. NEVER = at no time in my past. It is considered a negative sentence. I‘ve never seen a UFO. (in my life) She’s never been to Argentina. (in her life – up until this point of her life) Again, the adverb never is between the auxiliary have or has and the past
Russian & Dutch. Oct 9, 2012. #1. 1. By the time the police arrived, the two men had disappeared. 2. By the time the police had arrived, the two men had disappeared. According to the key to one of the exercises in English Grammar in Use, both are possible, but I really fail to see why. It makes no sense to me use the past perfect twice and Time Expressions ESL Multiple Choice Test Worksheet. A fun multiple choice test exercise ESL grammar worksheet for kids to study and practise time expressions. Look at the pictues, read the sentences, circle the correct time expression and fill in the blanks. Simple and useful for teaching and learning time expressions in English. Perfect continuous tense is used to put emphasis on the duration of an action which has started in the past and continues up to the present, present perfect continuous is used a lot with time expressions such as for, since, all morning / all afternoon/ all evening/ all week / all day / all week / minutes. Mrs Smith has been picking strawberries There are two common ways of telling the time. 1) Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes) 2) Say the minutes first and then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour) For minutes 1-30 we use PAST after the minutes. For minutes 31-59 we use TO after the minutes. When it is 15 minutes past the hour we normally say: ( a) quarter past. Past simple or present perfect? — English Grammar Today — справочник по письменной и устной английской грамматике и использованию — Cambridge Dictionary Perhaps the most common textbook exercise for “Present Perfect with unfinished times” is to ask students to divide time expressions into two groups – finished ones like “yesterday” that go with Simple Past and unfinished ones like “in the last three weeks” that go with Present Perfect. The problem with this is that there are very