Simple Past vs Past Participle vs Perfect Tense Basic English Grammar

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okay hi everybody welcome back to ask

Alisha the weekly series where you ask

me questions and I answer them maybe

first question this week comes from

Karima again haiku Rema Rema says

tyleshia could you please tell me what

does the expression give it a try mean

give it a try is a friendly way to

suggest someone try something so we use

give it a try

like after we show someone a process we

teach someone how to do something we

show them how to do something and then

we say okay give it a try like now it’s

your turn please try this thing I showed

you if you’re at the golf course and you

show someone how to swing a golf club

you could say alright give it a try

I think we do it on this channel

actually we introduce like a vocabulary

point or a grammar point and then ask

you give it a try so it’s a suggestion

to try something hope that helps you

thanks for the question okay next

question next question comes from Sanju

hi Sanju Sanju says what is the main

difference between simple past and

present and past participle or perfect

tense the main difference is that simple

past tense is used for actions that

started and finished in the past there’s

often a specific time point we know when

the action started and when the action

finished with perfect tense though we

don’t know when the action started or

when the action finished so we use it to

talk about like life experience in the

past like maybe when it happened is not

so important but we use it for like

travel experience or job experience so

that’s one thing that we do with perfect

ends the other thing is we use it to

talk about actions that started in the

past and that continued to the present

especially with the continuous tense we

also do this to talk about the effects

of actions that started in the past and

continue to the present so

for example I saw Beyonce live last week

is a Peston sentence so when we want to

use the perfect tense like we’ve seen

Beyonce live so many times that means

we’ve seen Beyonce in the past many

times but when is not important so we

use that perfect tense we’ve seen we

have seen so another example like when I

get this question I sometimes will say

like I’ve talked about this many times I

have talked about this many times is a

perfect tense statement so in the past I

have discussed this this is something I

talked about at points in the past so I

can use perfect tense to describe them

so if you have any questions about

simple past tense or present perfect

tense I would recommend checking the

videos that we have on the website or on

the YouTube channel so I talked more

about how to use these two grammar

points thanks for the question I hope

that that helps okay next question next

question comes from semi Huygens semi

semi says hi what’s the difference I

want you to know I want to you know I

want you know from these choices only

the first one is grammatically correct I

want you to know so it could introduce

something it could introduce an idea

like I want you to know I did my best

the other two things that are you

presented here they’re not grammatically

correct maybe with some punctuation or

maybe in a conversation with the right

emphasis they could be part of something

else I’m not sure but the other two

things are not grammatically correct so

the difference here is that your first

option is correct and it can begin an

idea I hope that that helps you okay

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from Danny hi Danny hi

again Danny Danny says I’d like to know

about finish has finished and is

finished okay finished can be a noun or

a verb as in the first item just finish

in present tense it’s used like in

present situations or to talk about

future situations so like let’s finish

work or we should finish this soon so we

can go to the

aarti something like that let’s finish

so that’s an upcoming activity let’s go

on to is finished when we see this is

finished it’s actually finished being

used as an adjective so we know that

because we see is there is is our verb

so like he is finished she is finished

class is finished so it’s an adjective

it’s describing the situation finished

there we use that to talk about

something that is completed it’s done so

we could use a verb form like class

finished at 9 o’clock or we could say

like at 9 o’clock class is finished so

that’s the current state that’s the

current situation the race is finished

or dinner is finished let’s compare that

to has finished so has finished is using

the present perfect form so finished

here is the past participle form of the

verb finished something has finished as

I talked about in one of the other

questions in today’s episode has

finished that would be the present

perfect tense meaning that something

occurred in the past and the effects of

fact continued to the present this is an

example of an effect continuing to the

present we would see has finished used

in like a polite situation for example

like I imagine at like a hotel breakfast

service if hotel breakfast ends at like

9:00 o’clock but I’m a guest and I

arrive at 9:30 and I want to eat

breakfast the hotel staff might say to

me sorry

breakfast has finished so they could say

I’m sorry breakfast is finished that’s

kind of direct sounding but if they say

breakfast has finished we could think of

it like the like ending point for

breakfast was a nine o’clock but there’s

this effect and the effect of that is

that me the gas like I can’t eat

breakfast now because it finished in the

past so we could kind of think of it

like an effect so I hope that that helps

you thanks very much for the question

ok let’s move on to your next question

the next question comes from syringe are

ready Huygens sweetheart sardar says hi

Alicia which one is correct in the

following sentences one not all

questions can’t be answered by Alicia or

two not

all questions can be answered by Alicia

the first sentence I read on your site

why use both not all and can’t be I

thought using only one of them makes a

sentence meaningful yes thank you very

much you’ve found what is called a typo

a typo is a typing mistake so I checked

this out on the website we will fix it

you are correct this should be can so

not all questions can be answered by

Alicia that would be the correct

sentence it should not be can’t so we’ll

fix that if you see a pattern like this

not all some things can be something so

that would be the correct way to build

this kind of sentence structure okay I

hope that helps and thank you very much

for this point next question comes from

Antonio loco hi Antonio Antonio says I

am confused about when to use I talk

with bla bla bla versus I talk to bla

bla bla can you help with that by the

way you’re very funny Thanks I talked to

or I talked with yes I’ve spoken about

this very very briefly and I think the

video about speak versus talk basically

there’s not really a difference between

two and with here when we use two though

I feel that it has more of a one way

conversational feeling like if you’re

giving someone information if it’s kind

of just one person sharing a lot of

information talking I might use to like

go talk to your boss about this or like

let’s talk to my parents about this when

you use with however it sounds more like

you’re participating in something

together you’re participating in a

discussion together like you do things

with another person so there’s someone

else there participating together with

you so using width to me sounds a little

bit more like there are other people

participating other people involved like

I said it’s a really small point both of

them are correct you won’t have any

communication problems if you choose to

or with or if you choose to mix them

hope that helps you alright that’s

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