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Hi,Could you please check these sentences for me?I angle in and out cars. (Do you use this word here?)What are differences between first three sentences to you? all three are "present simple" I believe.1) I cut my hair by myself. (Present simple)2) I do cut my hair by myself. (Present simple)3) I have cut my hair by myself. (Present simple)4) I have had cut my hair since for from last year. (Present perfect, a time period)Cheers

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John AkiI angle in and out cars. (Do you use this word here?)

I have no idea what this means. We don't use 'angle' like that.

Is this when you're trying to park a car?
Is this when you're driving on a freeway?

John Aki1) I cut my hair (by) myself. (Present simple)

Good. It says that you always do that. Whenever it is time to cut your hair, you cut it. You don't go to a barber.

I would not use 'by' for this meaning, i.e., without help.
Use 'by' for the meaning 'alone', that is, no one else was with you at the time.

I was by myself when the curtains caught fire.

John Aki2) I do cut my hair (by) myself. (Present simple)

OK. This is the emphatic form. It's almost always used to contradict a denial.

— Your hair looks nice, but that's because you don't cut it yourself. (a)
— Thank you, but I do cut my hair myself. (b)

(a) denies something. (It's a negation.) (b) contradicts the denial.

John Aki3) I have cut my hair (by) myself. (~~Present simple~~)

This is the present perfect. The verb 'cut' has the same form for all three principal parts: cut, cut, (have) cut.

John Aki4) I have had cut my hair since ~~for from~~ last year. (Present perfect, a time period)

No, 'have had cut' is not a possible tense in English. That's just nonsense.

You need to practice writing the different tenses for different verbs:

Present, Past, Present Perfect, Past Perfect

he knows, he knew, he has known, he had known
he says, he said, he has said, he had said
he finds, he found, he has found, he had found
he has, he had, he has had, he had had
he cuts, he cut, he has cut, he had cut

If you were trying for causative have, then you got the word order wrong.

I have had my hair cut since last year. (You arranged for someone else to cut your hair. This habit started last year.)

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