present perfect - This is the first time vs. This is the last time ...
Mar 4, 2015 · This is the first time I've done it. One of the many uses of the perfect tenses is to talk about life experiences, which is why it is used here: talking about the first time doing it, the …
word choice - "First time in" or "first time to"? - English Language ...
Jan 4, 2017 · 0 "Is this your first time to Sydney?" sounds flatly wrong to me, a 64-year-old native speaker of American English. I suppose it could be acceptable in some other variants of …
articles - “A first time” or “the first time” - English Language ...
Jan 1, 2016 · Losing my passport was a first for me. First-time can also function as an adjective, to mean a person who is doing something for the first time: a first-time voter (someone who is …
Tense when saying "This is the first time I"
Nov 1, 2017 · This is the first time I have ever eaten sushi. Perfect tenses refer to completed or "not relevant anymore" things. You may still be eating the sushi, but you have checked off the …
What is the right verb form for "this is the first time ..."
May 31, 2021 · In other words, you have searched your past history of having received compliments and have concluded that the compliment on your handwriting is the first time you …
Tense when saying "This is the first time" you've been somewhere
In this case, you'd use the present-tense "first time I've been", but it's much more common to narrate this way when relating past events than when talking about future plans.
phrase usage - It is my first time to VERB or VERB-ing - English ...
From a sentence written by a student: It was my first time to visit China. It sounds wrong to me, but using visiting only sounds slightly better. Which one is correct?
grammar - For the first time - the first time - English Language ...
Nov 19, 2014 · In general, "for the first time" implies "first time ever", whereas plain "the first time" usually implies the first of the contextually relevant instances/times (in my example, …
At/for the first time - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Dec 24, 2016 · What is meaning and difference between at the first time and for the first time ? Thanks.
prepositions - On the first time or at the first time - English ...
Feb 16, 2020 · I realized him on/at the first time I enter the room. Which preposition should I use “on” or “at” in sentence above or Does both have the same meaning?