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Present Perfect in main clause
I cannot determine whether both of these instances are appropriate uses of present perfect.
Scenario: We just pull up to a restaurant and notice we are the first/last ones there, and someone utters:
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Why is present simple used here?
We had a sentence in an exam, and we were asked to choose the right tense of the verb, the sentence goes as follows
They are having dinner; they (haven't had, don't have) any problems at all.
Now ...
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Are These Sentences Equivalent or is One More Appropriate than the Others? (Present Progressive Tense)
These all seem equally "valid" to me:
"I have recently been reading some research papers about..."
"I recently have been reading some research papers about..."
"I ...
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What is a complex/difficult example of English tenses? [closed]
I'm a native English speaker, and while learning other languages, I've learned that English has more complex tenses than other languages. I don't know what all of the English tenses are, but the most ...
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"Is / was / has been / had been used" in a statement
I'm confused whether I should use are or were or have been or had been in the following statement when describing the use of language in a passage
In paragraph 6, detailed adjectives ____ used to ...
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being removed vs gets removed?
Question I: Which one is grammatically correct?
1. Does order A remain effective after object B gets removed?
or
2. Does order A remain effective after object B is being removed?
Question II: What ...
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I've studied vs I've been studying
What's the difference from these two phrases? How would I know if keep studying or if I did it in the past?
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What does simple really mean in grammar?
Problems with explaining English grammar often reside in the terminology.
There is often a big assumption that we understand what the terms mean.
Simple is, in my opinion, one of the most important ...
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Which present tense should you use when talking about continuous pain?
The speaker can still feel the pain in the moment of speaking (he's asking if he's still able to go abroad with this back pain) & it's some sort of dialogue between some ordinary guy & a ...
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Question concerning tenses
Lauren has coaxed her brother many times to go cinema with her but he never listens
Lauren has coaxed her brother many times to go cinema with her but he never listened
Which sentence is correct?
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What is the correct way to ask about something that happened some time ago?
When I took one test I had to choose between four options:
a) Did you hear that he has been assigned to a new project last week?
b) Have you heard that he has been assigned to a new project last week?
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"I have been busy" past vs present
When someone asks me during a phone call " where have you been " then I answer as follow : I have been busy
1-Does it necessarily means that I was busy and I am still busy or could it means that I ...
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Consistency in Present Tense Sentences
Which is correct/more appropriate?
She has knocked over the vase before I can stop her.
OR
She knocks over the vase before I can stop her.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Use of the present perfect for repetitive actions
I've already searched a lot on the web, but still can't figure out one specific example.
For instance:
Mary has been to England twice.
Alice has been to the cinema twice this week. (= The week is ...
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Which is grammatically correct? we're having rain or we've been having rain
Can you believe all of this rain we've been having?
or
Can you believe all of this rain we are having?
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Present perfect with a past temporal expression
I know the present perfect tense may not be used with temporal expressions which define a timeframe which does not include the present. For example:
WRONG: I've visited him on Monday.
However, when ...
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“my email ID has changed” vs “my emil ID is/has been changed”
I want to ask one thing. Sometimes we hear people say
my email ID has changed.
As per my understanding present perfect tenses need a subject which is missing above.
I find these sentences little ...
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"since two months ago"? [duplicate]
My students write sentences like this:
She hasn't gone out with him since two months ago.
so I want to know if this sentence is right or wrong in English grammar.
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Dilemma between present perfect simple and past simple
I do not know where to find the right answer. Please tell and explain what my errors are
I must use either the Present Perfect Simple or Past Simple
B. How long / you / have /that?
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"might have been" vs "might be"
I have a question about the present perfect and present simple. Here's a sample dialogue.
A: "I can't find my umbrella. Have you seen it?"
B: "It might be in the car."
Why don't we use the "...
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I am/have or I graduated?
A girl uploads a picture on Instagram and writes-
Yay, I am Graduated.
This sounds quite a bit odd to me.
But amongst the following, which one is more natural?
Yay, I graduated today.
Yay, ...
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Leonardo DiCaprio won / has won the oscar for Revenant? [closed]
Leonardo DiCaprio has won many awards and the most prestigious one is the Oscar for the best actor that he won/ has won for Revenant.
Could we use Present perfect here, because here we are ...
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Why "Present Simple Tense" not ''Present Perfect Tense''? [duplicate]
I give a review here from the film "X-Men Apocalypse" below
"This is Bryan Singer's fourth X-Men film (fifth superhero film overall). This breaks the record set by Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan, ...
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We have been friends/we were friends for a long time [closed]
When I want to say that we were friends in the past, and we are still friends I will use present perfect tense, right?
i.e, We've been friends for 20 years. (Implied: We are still friends.)
But ...
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Which tense should be used for referring to a study in the past that continues until today?
I'm writing an academic article for journal publication. My field is social science, and the article is submitted to an American journal.
One of the reviewers suggested using the past tense ("were ...
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"I had lived before i moved" vs. "I lived before I have recently moved" (Both correct?) [closed]
I would like to know if both of the following sentences are grammatically correct:
I had lived in London before I moved to New York (I just want to talk about where I lived before I moved to another ...
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Which one is more appropriate to use?
"I've never been so relaxed as I have been when jogging."
"I've never been so relaxed as I was when jogging."
"I was never so relaxed as I have been when jogging."
First one sounds the most formal ...
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Present Perfect Tense - Determine usage case
Present Perfect has two usage case:
Case A: Say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now.
Case B: To show that something started in the past and has continued up until now.
How can ...
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Should I describe a book I've read in the past or present tense?
For example, should I say, "Recently, I finished a novel that was called The Pyrates. The plot of it was that a hero called Avery was sent by the King of England blah, blah, blah."
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"Recently I ...
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Should you use past or present tense in a sentence if it ends in something like in olden and modern times?
Large amounts of gold weren’t worth much and merely had to be gotten ridden of in olden times like in modern times.'
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Large amounts of gold aren't worth much and merely have to be gotten rid of ...
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Present Perfect Progressive in scientific writing?
Scientific writing is generally supposed to be written in present tense (focus on proof of the existence of the result, not how the author arrived at it).
However, I have a case where this results in ...
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Difference between two verb tenses [duplicate]
She is reading a lot these days.
She has been reading a lot these days.
Which one is correct? Is there any real difference between them?
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Can you please explain differences in following phrases: [duplicate]
Can you please explain differences in following phrases:
I am thinking
I thinking
I think
I have been thinking
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'Belong to' or 'have belonged to' - simple present or present perfect? [closed]
Which sentence is correct?
I have belonged to the tennis club for three years.
OR
I belong to the tennis club for three years.
I would appreciate it if someone would kindly answer my question....
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"You have" or "You've got" a message?
I know it's common to say "You've got a message" and I'm wondering whether it's also correct to say "You have a message"?
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usage of HAS in tenses [duplicate]
"she RETURNED 2 days ago
and
she HAS KNOWN me for 2 yrs"
Why in the 2nd sentences we have used "HAS" and not in 1st sentence?
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What verb tense does the phrase "is been living" belong to? [closed]
I have seen the following phrase:
We're been living here since April.
And I'm confused what is the verb tense that is used here. I thought it might be Present Perfect Continuous, which is a ...
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finish, is finished, have finished
Could you help me about this question?
I am confused about how to use "finish" with "when".
For example:
When your class is finished, could you wait for me at the bank?
When your ...
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Difference in meaning between "booking is amended" and "booking has been amended" [duplicate]
What is the difference in meaning between "booking is amended" and "booking has been amended"?
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Present Perfect Tense - Specific phrase
I am studying present perfect, and I found the following phrase:
Susan hasn't mastered Japanese, but she can communicate.
What's the difference between this phrase and the next:
Susan don't ...
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Present Continuous instead of Present Perfect Continuous? [closed]
Is it possible to simplify sentences like:
"I've been having soy milk for 10 yrs now"
"I've been standing here for an hour"*
into:
"I'm having soy milk for 10 yrs now"
"I'm standing ...
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What brings you here? What has brought you here?
Why do we ask people "What brings you here?" instead of "What has brought you here?"
According to Oxford Dictionary, "bring" here means "cause someone to come to a place." The cause of the visit ...
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how to use "has been" [duplicate]
I had been preparing for a tennis event since March, but it has been postponed until next year.
Question:
Can "it has been postponed" be replaced with "was postponed" grammatically without changing ...
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Difference between "have had" and "having"
What is the difference between the following two sentences?
I have had a headache since this morning.
I am having a headache since this morning.
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"Is used" vs. "has been used" vs. "was used"
I have three sentences of which I'm not sure which one is grammatical, and why.
It refers to the Eiffel Tower.
It is used as the symbol of Paris and of France for over a century.
It was ...
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Why present perfect in “When the night has come”?
In the song “Stand by Me”, we see a sentence like “when the night has come.”
I was taught that in a when clause, we use the past tense, yet the present perfect has been used in the sentence cited ...
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Present simple vs. present perfect
I'm doing a key word transformation and I've come to this sentence:
There aren't any eggs left.
"We ____ eggs".
I should complete the sentence with 2–5 words using the word "run".
At first I ...
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Present Simple instead of Present Perfect
I have come across interesting cases several times where the Present Simple is used instead of the Present Perfect. For example:
1) Lately I get the feeling that I am not so much being pulled down as ...
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"There are several reasons proposed for the collapse of the bridge."
There are several reasons proposed for the collapse of the bridge.
Is this present simple tense or the present perfect tense? I thought it might be the latter since there is a retrospective aspect to ...
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Should I reply in the past simple or in the present perfect? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Present perfect for past action with present effect
Is this sentence correct? What exactly does it mean?
Person 1: Where did you hide my keys?
Person 2: I put them on the table.
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