To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Do you have a question you want us to answer? You can send us your questions to learningenglish@bbc.co.uk 1. We can use both present perfect and past ...

Every complete sentence in English must contain a verb and that verb should be in the correct tense. The tense of a verb says when the action happens. Time is present, past or future. We use the ...

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 ...