The more I learn English the more I understand that the difference between it and Russian is not only in grammar rules but in the way of thinking! > The blogger mentioned all kinds of tenses - present perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect simple. I must have learned these tenses in school over 20 years ago, but what the hell do they mean? What was the native language of this blogger, English or Russian? Most of the Russian textbooks for learning English written in such a way that it is not very easy to understand them without some knowledge from general linguistics. Tenses, quantifiers, cleft constructions, etc... Only now, having got a lot of knowledge from normal English text-books (where it was described without all that gibberish what we should say in what situations) I've finally understood what means that mysterious phrase "future in the past".
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> The blogger mentioned all kinds of tenses - present perfect progressive, past perfect, past perfect simple. I must have learned these tenses in school over 20 years ago, but what the hell do they mean?
What was the native language of this blogger, English or Russian?
Most of the Russian textbooks for learning English written in such a way that it is not very easy to understand them without some knowledge from general linguistics. Tenses, quantifiers, cleft constructions, etc... Only now, having got a lot of knowledge from normal English text-books (where it was described without all that gibberish what we should say in what situations) I've finally understood what means that mysterious phrase "future in the past".