(Correct) I have to leave a note for Julius since he hadn’t arrived before I left. (Wrong) Apart from affirming that two things happened in the past, the past perfect tense also shows the order ...

No matter how long you’ve been speaking English, no matter how hard you’ve worked to perfect your grammar, some past tense verbs can ... entries for the animal before you see “bear, verb.” ...

Have you ever felt that English could use a couple more tenses to truly capture the nuances of the past, present, and future? We’re inviting you on an exploration of languages that have taken ...

He thought we had met before, but I was quite sure ... might / could in the earlier examples, the past perfect used in direct speech cannot move one tense further back in indirect speech: 'If ...