'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage to' Present tenses Present perfect continuous 'Like' for preference and description Adverbs of frequency 'Have to' and 'must' The past simple tense Catherine and ...

Woman in red cardigan: People do get their tenses of a verb confused. Making sure that the verb is in the same tense all the way through a document or a letter or an email. If you read it to yourself ...

Combining have been and were in this way is perfectly acceptable here, Umed. Often, in language use, deciding whether to use the present perfect or the past simple depends on your perspective on the ...