English speakers often use the past simple and past continuous together to say that something happened in the middle of something else. In this episode of The Flatmates, Alice says: '.when I ...

Combining have been and were in this way is perfectly acceptable here, Umed. Often, in language use, deciding whether to use the present perfect or the past simple depends on your perspective on ...

Ghost Wall’s time frame shifts quickly to the early 1990s where, in the same boggy part of northeast England, 17-year-old narrator Silvie and her parents are trying to recreate what it was like to ...