Timeline for How can I express in a sentence something that happened in the past but that has an impact on the present?
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| Jan 18, 2020 at 20:33 | comment | added | Weather Vane | For the example, you could say that your study of cookery precluded you from following your passion. For the question title, an event that has repercussions in the future can be described as being momentous. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 20:17 | vote | accept | ZenithNadir | ||
| Jan 18, 2020 at 20:16 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 20:10 | comment | added | ZenithNadir | Thank you both SO much! | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | Peter Shor | There are lots of sentences where you could use either spent her life or has spent her life, but I think the only time has spent is wrong is when the person is dead. And if the verb has repercussions on the present moment, you should use has spent. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:59 | comment | added | Shoe | Yes, you need the present perfect because you are still experiencing the repercussions. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | ZenithNadir | Yes! I would like to express the spending of my life as the subject of the sentence! So it is correct if I say “spending my life developing the perfect recipe has only managed to...”, isn’t it? | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:46 | comment | added | Shoe | 'spent my life developing the perfect recipe only managed to keep me away from my passion' is not a sentence. Do you mean spending so that spending my life developing the perfect recipe is the subject of the verb managed? Then your question is about whether it should be managed or has managed. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:43 | comment | added | ZenithNadir | So “spent” is right only if the person is dead, otherwise is “have spent”? “Have spent my life developing the perfect recipe only managed to keep me away from my passion” is correct...? | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:34 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I don't think you understand the present perfect. If somebody "spent their life" doing something, the only reason you couldn't use the present perfect is if they're dead. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 19:28 | history | edited | ZenithNadir | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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