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The present tense is a grammatical tense that locates a situation or event in present time.
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Past simple vs. present simple for the verb "hate"
Both are correct, assuming she still hates action movies.
Your tutor is trying to teach you a rule from 19th century English.
See Google Ngrams.
In the 19th and early 20th century, only
she to …
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Résumé conventions: present, past, and continuous tenses
For résumés, in general you should use present continuous when the entry is temporary and simple present when it's permanent. For example: "knows 27 programming languages well" should be in simple pre …
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present simple or would?
You need to look at the whole context. With the following line, it reads
In most parts of the world, storm clouds would be greeted with a frown. But in India, it’s said that when the monsoon rains co …
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Why aren't these sentences correct?
Your assumption that these sentences are not correct is wrong. Both of these sentences are perfectly fine.
Just because you can't find very many people who have used exactly the same construction o …
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"I am tired and doing my homework." Is it grammatically correct?
Strictly speaking, the title sentence is grammatical, but it sounds unidiomatic because there's no connection between the two predicates. To give some similar examples,
I am raising money and run …
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"would" as an auxiliary for present tense conditionals
I am going to use my own analysis of English conditionals. I don't have any good references for this.
In English, conditionals either come in irrealis or in realis moods.
Both the protasis and the ma …
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Passive and past tense
You aren't using the past tense in those sentences; you're using the present perfect tense (has been observed; have been successfully validated). If you are referring to work that you did and are repo …
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Should I use "the" in the phrase "the check-in for a flight", in this context?
My intuition is that both check-in and the check-in are acceptable. Google Ngrams seems to agree. And it's fairly easy to find of the check-in used on the Internet.
However, as @Edwin Ashworth points …
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Which tense should be used for actions that terminate exactly at the present moment?
To convey the fact that something terminated at the current moment, you can use the word just.
He has just arrived;
this would tend to be more common in the U.K.
He just arrived;
this would tend t …
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Why "Present Simple Tense" not ''Present Perfect Tense''?
This webpage was written before X-Men Apocalypse was released.
(It says "Bryan Singer confirmed that the film will take place in the 1980s.")
Since the sentence was written before the film was relea …
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Knew, realized + the past/present
If the clause after knew or realized is a general truth, or more specifically, if it is still true, we can use either the past or the present.
This website, talking about backshifting, says
Backs …
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Why do I instinctively want to use the present tense with a conditional?
You sometimes do need to use the future tense in dependent clauses.
We need to review the sites you will visit in Venice.
*We need to review the sites you visit in Venice.
But you don't do it …