November 2019 - Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, ladies, let's start this thing once again! Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!

May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

The problem has to do with TENSE.
This is an action (star fleet officers are "used to having") that's always been going on and will continue to go on.

I recognized your mistake but I'm finding it very difficult to explain it to you, sorry.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'll never, ever understand English tenses. Not even if I live a thousand years. It's hopeless.

I'm Hungarian, and our language has exactly three tenses: past, present and future. Everything else is context. It works like a charm. I grew up with German as my second language, starting at the age of 3, and I can handle German tenses without problems. They are logical. Hell, I could even follow French tenses in the half year I was learning French for the heck of it. No problem. English tenses, though...

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

Want me to let you in on a little secret?
There are a lot of native English speakers here in America who never master all the tenses either and they get by without them--more or less.

America's schools have really gone to seed in the past quarter of a century thanks to their trying to make school easy enough that everyone can pass and get a high school diploma.
:^\