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Episode 44 - The Quest for the Holy Grail of English Grammar | An Interview with Christopher Walker

The Clark and Miller English Podcast

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Do You Use Present Perfect or Past Simple?

Present perfect is what we use in the present when we are thinking about the past. I always tell my students it's a choice. You're in the present and you're choosing to think about the past, so how could that still follow? There's nothing to hold onto there. It's actually quite a simple trick to fix that. And it's just a matter of rotating the idea. Will: "I did a lot of research into the etymology of modal verbs"

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