HOW DO THE PRESENT, PAST, PRESENT PERFECT, PAST PERFECT TENSES COMPARE?
Can you tell these tenses apart? My goal here is to compare the present, past, present perfect and past perfect tenses using a single example sentence. I imagine you're still having trouble distinguishing between these different tenses. How can you clearly distinguish them without falling into the trap? The first thing to do when you have sentences of different natures is to go back to their definitions. As you know, tenses apply to a specific period of time, depending on what you want to say. I'd like to illustrate this in a single sentence so you can see the differences between the sentences. The only sentence to use for my illustration is: working with IBM . I. SIMPLE PRESENT VS. PRESENT CONTINUOUS - I regularly work with IBM on specific assignments = we use the simple present tense to talk about things that happen again and again, it focuses on repeated facts and events. - I am currently working in my IBM office = in this situation, the action is taking place no...