Oh, I just found a clip for @snailboat. If someone claimed that they've never heard "Me either," before, you could show them this clip from Oscars 2013: youtube.com/…. (Presumably, they'd have never seen Oscars before. :-)
What is the difference between the sentences below?
Employees names were not appearing in the pay register when they had negative salary earlier but when we changed their salary to positive they stared appearing.
And,
Employees names had not been appearing in the pay register when they...
> Employees names [were not|had not been] appearing in the pay register when they had negative salary earlier but when we changed their salary to positive they stared appearing.
While I don't have any problem with past vs. past perfect, I think it's rather strange to use the progressive (continuous) with appear(ing).
Hi all. Sadly one of my answers has negative votes and I'm considering removing it. I'd appreciate if people would comment on what's wrong with the answer.
@DamkerngT. I wrote an answer to that question because I think both the question and the other answer got the tenses wrong. Both tenses do have a continuous aspect.
Some can even say that English has only two tenses: the present tense and the past tense.
And I think some might claim that English has something like 24 or 36 tenses.
I think both of you in that "were not appearing" got the tenses right (with different sets of terminologies). What bothers me is the use of "appearing".
What is the difference between the sentences below?
Employees names were not appearing in the pay register when they had negative salary earlier but when we changed their salary to positive they stared appearing.
And,
Employees names had not been appearing in the pay register when they...
