what tense is this sentence?

The sentence is not a good one. These are your choices:

He did not come home last week. (past tense)
He has not come home since last week. (present perfect)

Thank you very much

Could you tell me the diffrence between present tense and present perfect tense? thanks in advance

Hello, AFROZ—and welcome to English Forums.

The uses of the 2 verb forms are various. It is best if you start by reading about them in these links:

http://www.grammar.cl/Present/Simple.htm
http://www.gr

Anonymous:

He did not come home since last week? ------------ That sentence's meaning is very clear. But since present perfect tense is usually used in that type of sentence, the simple past tense sounds at least somewhat odd.

Mister MicawberThe sentence is not a good one. These are your choices:
He did not come home

IS THIS sentence correct?
He had not come since last week?

AFROZIS THIS sentence correct?

He had not come since last week? It's correct. Do you know what it means?

AFROZIS THIS sentence correct? He had not come since last week?

Not in any normal sense. If he came, it is possible, but still a rare situation. It means that he came sometime this week, and that's what you would say.

Mister MicawberAFROZIS THIS sentence correct? He had not come since last week?
1) Although AFROZIS has a question mark at the end of the sentence, we both took it to be a declarative sentence, which is presumably what (s)he meant. (??)
2) I didn't take the sentence to be an (equivalent of)(replacement for)/ any of the previous ones.
So we ha