I really need someone to explain it.

• Whooops

  2 Apr 06, 12:39

  Article quoted from straits times. its a article from Pm lee to CJ Yong. i got some questions to ask...
  
  1. As you step down (why is it step not stepped? i thought its past tense?) after serving as chief justice for 15 years....blah blah blah..
  
  2. You have transformed ( why is it have transformed not had transformed?) the judiciary into a world class ...blah blah blah
  
  3. You have also reoriented ( y is it have not had? ) the attitudes and mindsets of them
  
  4. At the rate of this procedure it would have ( y is it have not had) took 5 years.
  
  5. Our system is studied ( y is it is not was?) as a model.
  
  6. This is shared. ( y is it is shared not was shared?)
  
  plz help me,..me o lvl this year and i suk at eng..plz help.
• xinyi!

  2 Apr 06, 13:02

  Originally posted by Whooops:
  Article quoted from straits times. its a article from Pm lee to CJ Yong. i got some questions to ask...
  
  1. As you [b]step down (why is it step not stepped? i thought its past tense?) after serving as chief justice for 15 years....blah blah blah..
  
  as you means youre still stepping down thus present tense
  
  2. You have transformed ( why is it have transformed not had transformed?) the judiciary into a world class ...blah blah blah
  
  it's always been "you..have" "we..have" "i had" they had".. etc
  
  3. You have also reoriented ( y is it have not had? ) the attitudes and mindsets of them
  
  4. At the rate of this procedure it would have ( y is it have not had) took 5 years.
  
  5. Our system is studied ( y is it is not was?) as a model.
  
  still being studied?
  
  6. This is shared. ( y is it is shared not was shared?)
  
  plz help me,..me o lvl this year and i suk at eng..plz help.[/b]

• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Apr 06, 13:09

  Originally posted by Whooops:
  Article quoted from straits times. its a article from Pm lee to CJ Yong. i got some questions to ask...
  
  1. As you [b]step down (why is it step not stepped? i thought its past tense?) after serving as chief justice for 15 years....blah blah blah..
  
  2. You have transformed ( why is it have transformed not had transformed?) the judiciary into a world class ...blah blah blah
  
  3. You have also reoriented ( y is it have not had? ) the attitudes and mindsets of them
  
  4. At the rate of this procedure it would have ( y is it have not had) took 5 years.
  
  5. Our system is studied ( y is it is not was?) as a model.
  
  6. This is shared. ( y is it is shared not was shared?)
  
  plz help me,..me o lvl this year and i suk at eng..plz help.[/b]

  Because he haven't stepped down. If this letter is written after he has stepped down, everything would be in past tense.
  
  For point 4, note this:
  
  Any sentence that has these words (to, could, will, would, can, can't, wouldn't, couldn't, may, might), the verb will always in present tense.
  
  For example, I want to buy a can of Milo.
  I would like to request for a transfer.
  
  If the word "be" is added like to be (verb), it would be in past participle.
  
  For example, XYZ company will be bought over by ABC company.
  
  For point 5, Singapore's judicical system is still here. It's not as if we have merged with another country. If we have merged and our old system is being studied by other countries, it will be "was studied".
• Whooops

  2 Apr 06, 13:21

  any one knows where can i find a website telling me all these thing? that will teach me?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Apr 06, 13:29

  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html
• ^tamago^

  2 Apr 06, 13:30

  i dunno all the language terms etc, but i can tell u, grammatically, all are correct.
• hegu

  2 Apr 06, 14:02

  many ppl are confused over the usage of have and had, eg. you have done/you had done. if the thing remains done till present, 'have' is used. on the other hand 'had' is used to show something was done but not anymore in the present.
  
  for instance you just go out of the house, you will say, "i have locked the door." (since the door remains locked)
  
  when you return home you will say, "i had locked the door (when i went out)."
  
  i had been a bad boy last time. (not a bad boy now)
  i have been a bad boy since young. (still a bad boy)
• ^tamago^

  2 Apr 06, 14:06

  Originally posted by hegu:

  many ppl are confused over the usage of have and had, eg. you have done/you had done. if the thing remains done till present, 'have' is used. on the other hand 'had' is used to show something was done but not anymore in the present.
  
  for instance you just go out of the house, you will say, "i have locked the door." (since the door remains locked)
  
  when you return home you will say, "i had locked the door (when i went out)."
  
  i had been a bad boy last time. (not a bad boy now)
  i have been a bad boy since young. (still a bad boy)

  good. i have it in my brains, but i'm not good at putting it in words.
• FBI

  2 Apr 06, 14:06

  Originally posted by Whooops:
  Article quoted from straits times. its a article from Pm lee to CJ Yong. i got some questions to ask...
  
  1. As you [b]step down (why is it step not stepped? i thought its past tense?) after serving as chief justice for 15 years....blah blah blah..
  
  2. You have transformed ( why is it have transformed not had transformed?) the judiciary into a world class ...blah blah blah
  
  3. You have also reoriented ( y is it have not had? ) the attitudes and mindsets of them
  
  4. At the rate of this procedure it would have ( y is it have not had) took 5 years.
  
  5. Our system is studied ( y is it is not was?) as a model.
  
  6. This is shared. ( y is it is shared not was shared?)
  
  plz help me,..me o lvl this year and i suk at eng..plz help.[/b]

  this article is still present