SIMPLE PAST or PRESENT PERFECT? When + how to use them!

[@engvidJames]

Thanks for watching, everyone! Make sure to check out more of my English grammar videos: 10 Types of Nouns kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnqbmp9vptKtsMU How to use ALSO, TOO, AS WELL kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2W3npqwpLeFqJI

[@leidahora2092]

Back in 2014, me and my friends used to download your videos from KZbin to study offline because data was too expensive. I kept on learning and from 2017, I was able to understand everything you said. Now, I write complete articles in English and have them published in American journals. Thank you for all your videos.

[@ArningEchanoPH]

Are you me? Haha

[@za_ki2451]

Con you help me to improve my english language

[@OOM2M]

THE BEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD

[@RuslanaPanceva]

💯👍👍👍🔥

[@natalialoza8653]

This is true 😊

[@yujinnn._.8]

Oh yes he is😍😍

[@Huh8ivviihih]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@Mathwithracha]

I agreee❤

[@giovanapalletialarcon4902]

You are a great teacher because you explain things clearly.

[@vitaliyscherbakov6399]

Thank you James! Everything is getting so simple with you!

[@romanskyba2738]

Дивлюся знову,після двох років. Трошки географію сходу України вивчав. Гарний матеріал, розумний вчитель!

[@DavidRodriguezGuette]

Teacher James always takes clarity one step further... Many thanks 🙏🏻. Is good to have a refresh about all from time to time.

[@cyrius9407]

Merci James, excellent petit cours d'anglais bien mené, et didactique. Thanks you !

[@Mathwithracha]

I love you Sir I ve never felt bored or had enough of your lessons 🥺 Thank you youtube for giving us this amazing free learning resource, thank you Sir for your efforts and amazing way of teaching You certainly are the best English teacher in the WORLD All the love from Algeria ❤ God bless you

[@nataliiakrys6978]

Thank you so much for your lesson! You are a brilliant teacher!!!

[@MarcosVVentura]

This teacher is incredible. His classes are funny (ok, I admit that I ALWAYS laugh at his jokes) and clear. Thank you for existing.

[@thomasshaju8056]

you are the best teacher in the wold thankyou so much I understand all the chapter thankyou so mch😀😀😀😀😀😍😍😍😃😃😃😀😀🤠😎

[@faysalyuusuf1302]

Teacher it's my first time visit to your channel and watch your videos but i probably understand the lesson! Thank you so much from somalia.

[@TeacherOthman]

Thanks 🙏 for leveling up my English, I'm from Africa in Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@juanbonilla-x1u]

Teacher James, funniest teaching style ever!!!

[@linuxsever5727]

Hi James, I watched your videos few years ago. Then even I'm subscribed to your channel, I didn't see your videos on my homepage. Few weeks ago I clicked your channel and watched one of your videos. I understand English very well now. I watch videos, movies without subtitles but I'm not very good at writing or speaking grammatically correct. But still I feel people understand me. You are a great teacher. I love your videos. Don't stop making some videos outside too😊

[@valeria_kvo]

I am fond of these lessons, it is always fun, clearly and interesting! Thank you, James!

[@Cão_munista]

I have learned a lot from you! Thank you!

[@tianyuan7046]

THE G.O.A.T ...you make teaching English simple

[@tomsem3181]

Danke!

[@AbshirCadde-zu7zt]

Our teacher ❤

[@decioandre6601]

The favourite one

[@Natalia-jn8ul]

The best teacher!!!

[@discoveryoflife70]

I have really understood now these tenses❤❤. Best teacher in the world.

[@mustaphabela6632]

you are the best James

[@lucasoliveiralima8844]

As always, great lesson. I HAVE LEARNED a lot with this video

[@hermannkouame7501]

this is my first time to find one of your video , I like your English accent. I am a french speaking from Africa ❤

[@silvawilliam6185]

Man thank you, you so very good for teacher i learn with you and i have to only thx for your lessons and i going to learning with you beacuse i am Brazilian and this help me so much thx for the tipo and the lessons ❤

[@sebastiangomez1394]

Excellent class, thank you ♥️

[@durelouka7428]

Your are the best Coach JAMES🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳❤️

[@Mango_the_Man]

Great class! Cheers from Brazil.

[@Runaway_psychologist]

Thanks a lot! So energetic and useful! Really like this style))

[@fksmao]

Amazing English Class!!!

[@professor-seba]

God, I've missed your videos so much, James!!! So glad to learn from you again :D

[@elliehansen1345]

He's a best teacher in the world

[@stefaniafagiolo7509]

Grazie Mr. James, it was helpful. Thank you

[@Huh8ivviihih]

Love you from France !!

[@CaroC22]

Thankss teacher I from ecuadorian and I learn very much with you

[@nunofigueira8691]

I will put this in practices in my next video talk about my experience learn english from this channel 😊

[@hakimbenmesbah7781]

Thanks a lot, as usually great lesson

[@thomasshaju8056]

good class thank you sir

[@LoriSenDi]

Thank you so much❤ i finally understand the difference, so comfortable and funny lesson☺️

[@pawedomzalski3392]

I love lessons with you

[@brahimslimani5632]

Astonishing as usual.keep going we missed you❤❤❤

[@Alexis_468]

I got it James, Thank you. 👌

[@shaaficiaadam1184]

Thank you very much my teacher 😘

[@temultik]

Useful and pretty funny class! Thank you!

[@artemvolkov5682]

After all a native speaker will ask you "did you have a chance to do ... ?" instead of "have you had a chance to do ...?" and you will be frustrated again

[@matthieubaya6805]

For what it's worth,Being a native speaker doesn't mean always grammatically correct 😁

[@fia0612]

It's the same in other languages, native speakers don't think about grammatically correct things, and I tell you because I speak Spanish, and I know that many things don't make sense

[@zakkvanish3668]

Unfortunately you are right. I would say that in German simple past and present perfect are pretty much used interchangeably. Simple present is often used instead of simple future too. You might hear "I go to the shop" instead of "I will go to the shop". At the same time past perfect or future perfect will be used by pretty much nobody except by somebody who is bad with tenses and uses them by accident. But for what it's worth: My mom always used to say: "Just because somebody jumps off a cliff, it doesn't mean you should do so too" and "just because everybody does it, it doesn't necessarily make it right." So if you are sure that you use the tenses correctly, use it. It might even encourage some native speakers to think about their use of their language. Just an example for how terribly wrong natives can be: A popular "news"paper in Germany once asked about some politician: "Can (person) chancellor?" This question is used to this day especially in the media. It isn't even a proper sentence.

[@MarkMarch-hi9hz]

But , i can't understand how do we use since 2015 for example with the present perfect , isn't this a specific time as in past we say in 2015 so what is the difference (both of them indicate a specific time)

[@PauloEduardoLobao]

hugs from brazil!!! amazing

[@AlexandreMonteiro-if4tn]

You have saved me! I love u

[@officialluizgustavo]

Thank you teacher 😊

[@holgertebbe9680]

Hi James, I really like your English lessons. Thank you very much for your effort and support. In confidence: The traffic light thing is extremely tragic and not funny. Maybe I can help you with a yellow pen. I'm sure something can be done. Where should I send the delivery?

[@greenkaktus]

In that video we can see that James little bit a sick, but still on work. Great job man!

[@miraybatbeyi9411]

You're amazing! I'm listening to the video with full attention, as if I might burst into laughter at any moment!! .d

[@vitalyrybin5645]

I think in the past simple tense when we are dealing with a continuous in time action we have to use a "time container" instead of the exact time point, which contains the whole described action in it - from the action's beginning till its end. For example, when we use 'yesterday', we imply that the whole action described by a verb phrase - from its beginning till its end - lays inside 'yesterday'. More strictly the action started after yesterday had started and ended before yesterday's end. The action mentioned cannot start earlier - a day before yesterday - and cannot end after yesterday's ending (today). That means we are selecting a time period (instead of exact point in time) big enough to contain inside it the whole time period of an action's life. It's like putting smaller "action's time container" into a bigger "time container" - similar to the Russian 'matrioshka' toy principle. P.S. Even when we use time marker like 'five hours ago', we imply a "one hour time container" beginning in time point 'six hours ago' and ending in time point 'five hours ago'. P.P.S. When we are dealing in the past simple with instantaneous events - actions taking less than a few seconds like jumping, sneezing or shooting - we are talking about the exact point in time, as we treat such events not like 'time containers' having some time length of its life but rather as points in time with zero length in time.

[@علووشي]

one doesn't feel time while watching you, you still have that sense of comedy teacher, thank you very much🌹

[@marcelofreire23]

Thanks, great lesson

[@brennocarvalho762]

Tks for all!

[@FranciscoLuche-1971]

J’ai rien pigé, mais j’ai comême aimé !!! 😂👍

[@maya.7057]

James, you made me laugh when you were talking about your company which cannot afford yellow markers. You said it in a lowered voice like to to share with a friend. Your lessons are fun! Tnank you!

[@L8rCloud]

What are the two tenses of "I was working"? 1 - Yesterday I was working WHEN SUDDENLY 2 - TWO YEARS AGO I was working on the Colgate campaign ....Thanks

[@sacdiabdi7609]

I have not understood present prefect before, but after I listened for ten minutes. I had confirmed that i can separate the uses of both tenses.

[@harikrish236]

Hey man how are you? Iam a fan of your teaching

[@gowar82]

More videos James!!!

[@bq3074]

Thank you!

[@abdisalanabdi9978]

Good a job my teacher

[@seyfriedjiang]

looking forward to your new video. 😊

[@АндрійГорщарук-л8т]

Good day, please, what kind of book would you suggested me, to read them, for learning English best. Thank you and all health to you!

[@Hematmostafa]

Thanks ❤ The first video I comment on it I understood the lesson from you.🎉🎉

[@dhmrjff_00]

I have not seen like useful video yet :)

[@arseniofernandes1300]

Love from Mozambique

[@afnanmohammed9890]

Merci 🌸

[@krzysiek4568]

thank you

[@MadhubhartiGBava]

Thanks

[@denesmolnar19]

Best ever

[@nariman7801]

James, we love you

[@jcbouie300]

Hey James, sup I'd like to get some more information about your English classes.

[@Dmitry-c9g]

We're lucky)))) thanks

[@hematshahsofi7158]

Hi teacher james i hope you find and well

[@nasalisvagabond9039]

As a brazilian, I would like to say that there is no verbal tense equivalent to the Present Perfect in portuguese, so the idea of thinking about if an action is completed or not may sound weird for portuguese speakers. If you have made something in the past, the action is in the past and that is it. xD

[@delamourpierre897]

Great

[@piotrowicki_7903]

What about past perfect could you explain it in the next episode?

[@EnglishwithVahid1]

The past perfect tense shows that one action happened before another in the past. : Examples: I had eaten before he arrived. She had finished her homework when the phone rang.

[@hosrakkiham395]

We are not going into irregular verbs. Second verb "go". :)

[@ibrahimramadan1641]

Big Star

[@forever3131]

❤❤❤

[@teabag1155]

What if we wanna tell them without them asking question and not mentioning the specific time For example I have cooked food or I cooked food

[@EK-tb6ui]

At school they told me that "never" is used in Pres Simple, as "never" defines the scecific period - the whole past. Were they wrong?

[@mahamadoukebbeh]

Hi James

[@mariamyaka6363]

😊😊😊😊

[@ahmedadamflowahmedadam1610]

Hi 😊😊😊

[@JamaniTJohnson]

Here are my sentences. "This day, I did my chores, ate snacks for lunch, took a long nap, and exercised on the treadmill. I've been taking care of home, so I'm tired."

[@Kãonnemann_us-k6g]

teacher you're so stylish

[@eucomigomesmo3152]

❤

[@essentia9]

You recorded this in winter and uploaded only now?😮 Tf were you waiting for?😅

[@Nahomieestimond-tc6zy]

My Father's name is James I'm grateful to have you Daddy ❤

[@Seyedebi]

I think your real father is Johnny Sinz.😊

[@Nahomieestimond-tc6zy]

@@Seyedebi who's that lol

[@Brumkogl]

I have PP too

[@BlazelsTakenn]

Yoo what’s up bro

[@exea]

Justo ask " when" happened sonething. if You know it use past . If You don't know o not dure use presente perfect

[@jerrytse102]

he is left handed?

[@sirkiraamaabtidoon]

Im from somalia

[@nextlevel4189]

Waxbaro warya😂

[@MistaraDroit]

Let's be friends..I am from Algeria