Present continuous and 'going to' Verb patterns The present perfect with ‘ever’ and ‘never’ The present perfect with 'for' and 'since' ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The influence of the mother tongue (L1) in the acquisition of second languages has been detected in various areas of language. One of these ...

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 ...

Whether teaching or learning the present perfect, it is often useful to present the two verb aspects in a contrastive way. Compare the following: 'Dick Francis has been writing novels since 1957. In ...