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This tag is for questions about the differences in the meaning of two words. For us to be able to help you, please provide the sourced definitions that you are referring to, where the confusion arises, as well as an example sentence that shows the ambiguity.
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Simple present or present perfect simple with "WHEN"?
The problem with the second one is tense. When "have" is the auxiliary (or helping) verb, the second verb takes the past participle which usually ends in "-en" and in this case would be "gotten".
"I …
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"On the first of every month" vs. "every first of the month"
The difference is that the first is a prepositional phrase and the second is a noun phrase.
There's nothing illogical about the second one. Nor is there any reason to hyphenate it beyond stylistic pr …
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