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/>