<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=18531.msg725571#msg725571">Quote from: Haibane on 22-07-2008, 02:25:25</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You are still incorrect ;)<br/><br/>The boy hit the ball = simple past tense. Note the action is compete.<br/><br/>The boy had <del>had</del> hit the ball = past perfect simple tense.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The boy hits the ball = present simple tense, the action is happening now.<br/><br/>So I write mostly using your first example in the past tense, does that help?<br/><br/>"The party walks along the lane. The healer woman talks to the prince's male guard." = present simple tense. Look how ugly that is, I would never write an RP post that way.<br/><br/>"The party walked along the lane. The healer woman talked to the prince's male guard." = simple past tense (how I mostly write and how about 90% of the posts I've seen on Elliquiy are written).<br/><br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_tense<br/><br/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_tense<br/>  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Thanks for pointing out that I missed one S. Oh and "The boy hit the ball is." still correct because it's hit, hit, hit as opposed to swim, swam, swum. But hits sounds more correct.