Sequence of tenses in reported speech
21925
Why do people sometimes use the past perfect form of a verb when the past would suffice? (e.g. "you had mentioned")
140181
Past tense and the phrase "who knows what"
150189
past continuous or past simple
65935
tense in a sub-clause
23177
Tense change: previous actions on something that's currently true
38255
Future Tense of Modal Verbs
12310
When is the present perfect tense used instead of the past tense?
122876
Simple past tense vs. perfect past tense
55425
Tense for an event that occurs as you read it
128296
mixed tenses/tenses agreement
114784
Gerunds:Having+past participle and being+past participle
45224
Inversion + past tense
64476
"While" and "When" phrases in the future tense
95073
Different form of reported speech
25208
Speculative conditional: Why does it use the past tense or past perfect tense?
3243
Is it always necessary to repeat the pronoun before each verb?
143716
Is such participle clause reducing usage constrained to only past tense?