The perfect tense is used to say what you did or what you have done in the past. To form the perfect tense you need a subject, an auxiliary verb and a past participle. Perfect tense with 'être' in ...

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 stump you. For example, the day after you decide to grin and bear ...

Use the preterite tense to talk about what has already happened or actions that have been completed. It is often used with specific time frames, eg yesterday, last year. Irregular verbs in the ...