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Can We Use Participle Clauses as Supplements with Continuative and Non-continuative Perfects?
I've recently read a section in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language where Huddleston and Pullum talk about the focus of the perfect. They talk about the referred time (in the case of the ...
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What verb construction would you use?
Imagine you go down to the station at noon to meet your friend Mike there. You sit there and wait and wait for him to show up. Two hours later your
friend finally arrives and says to you:
Sorry I'm ...
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Can the present perfect construction be used with the adverb "earlier"?
I would like to know if the present perfect construction can be used in the two following sentences that employ the adverb earlier:
As I have said earlier, I don't like her at all.
I have been to ...
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Which one is correct? "I am suffering from fever since yesterday" or "I am suffering from fever from yesterday"?
I am not good in English literature.
From daily use of English language, it seems to me that the second from in:
1 I am suffering from fever from yesterday
is the correct word. But, my friend, a ...
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Time Travel Grammar
I recently watched a scene from the tv sitcom The Big Bang Theory with Sheldon explaining English grammar about time travel (related with the use of have, has, had...), is his explanation even ...
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Would that be correct ? I finished eating at 7:30 AM. = I have eaten at 7:30 AM [closed]
Would that be correct ?
I finished eating at 7:30 AM. = I have eaten at 7:30 AM.
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'have been' vs. 'went' with time words
Sometimes I see the following in ESL learners' writing:
I have been to America two years ago.
Am I correct in saying that it should be:
I have been to America.
I went to America two years ago.
My ...
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