anonymous_f3d38a ha scritto:Thanks for your answer guys.
I was looking for a table issued by an university or an academy which we can trust.
There are a lot of this tables online, made by students or ordinary people.
But if I have to study on it, if I have to consider it as an example... I would like that it come from an institution!
@ghira I will search for B.D.Graver's table of tenses
@gio73 I think that my problem is not linked to the "construction" of the verbs... it regards the rules which show when to use one kind of tense rather than another one!
You may very well have made some typos but in case anyone else is wondering or some of them are not typos:
maybe "answers"
"a university"
"these tables"
"study on it" doesn't sound right to me. (and neither does "study on books", for example)
"to consider it as an example" seems odd
"would like it to come" maybe?
"institution" doesn't seem like quite the right word.
There are some differences in tense usage between the UK and US. There may be other differences in e.g. Australia and New Zealand but I know nothing about that.
I don't think the differences between English and Italian tense usage are that vast.
The main ones are duration form, "When I am rich I will be happy" and "He said he would come", aren't they?
I suppose we can add the almost total non-existence of the present subjunctive, the existence of "I am being killed" type constructions and the use of passives instead of impersonal/reflexive verbs. "Bus tickets sell themselves here"... no.