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Questions related to the English Perfect Construction, which is sometimes called "the present perfect tense".
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Correct tense for events which happend long time ago but still have direct connection with p...
Suppose that a man disappeared twenty years ago and I haven't had a notice about him since then. What should I say to my interlocutor if I want to tell him about this story?
You know, Harry has di …
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Perfect tenses in conditionals
Why does one sometimes use the perfect tense in conditions of the first type? Say,
I will do something if you have done something.
I did something when he had done something.
instead of,
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Why don’t people ever say “I have wanted to ask”?
Why do people never say the following:
I have wanted to ask. . . .
Maybe it would be better to ask whether it’s correct to say:
I have wanted to ask. . . .
But really I think I’ve never he …
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Did you ever hear(see, do, anything else) vs. Have you ever(seen, done, and so on) heard? [closed]
What's correct? If both, what is the difference between these questions?
An example from The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
MacDonald turned over the letter which Holmes had handed him …
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Past perfect or past simple in combination with present perfect?
Suppose I received a document from my colleague, studied it and then gave him feedback in a letter. How should I construct the following sentense?
I have examined the document you gave me and...
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