Questions and answers tagged #verb-tenses.
I'm writing a short introduction about myself for a job forum and got stuck on whether I should say, "I work at a bank" or "I am working at a bank." For me, bo…
I'm always unsure whether to use present perfect or past simple when I talk about things I've done, especially experiences like travel. For example, should I s…
Hi everyone! I'm writing a report for my English class, and my teacher suggested I use more passive sentences to sound more formal. I'm a bit confused about ho…
I'm writing about what I did last night and I'm a bit confused about which tense to use. For example, should I say, "I watched TV when my friend called," or "I…
I'm working on a story and need to turn some dialogue into reported speech, but the verb tenses are confusing me. For example, if someone said, "I am going to …
I'm having trouble figuring out when I should use a gerund after certain verbs in English. For example, I see sentences like "I enjoy swimming" and "She starte…
I'm having trouble figuring out when I should use an infinitive (like "to go") and when I should use a gerund (like "going") after some verbs. For example, sho…
Hi everyone! I keep running into examples where verbs like "remember," "stop," and "forget" are used with both a gerund and an infinitive, but the meaning seem…