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Rinoceronte Posted 16 years ago
Linguistics Studies
An educating puzzle (Present Perfect)
The point of solving this puzzle is in that the solution brings you closer to understanding of the essence of this extremely controversial tense.
Just to spur you a bit, this puzzle was solved in seconds by my students who have been being taught the tenses consistently.
So, the puzzle:
The equivalent to Present Perfect existed in Latin. It looked like "habeo factum" in this ancient language. The scholars who traced the tense's roots back to the first century A.D. (in particular, Rodríguez Molina) complain that there are quite few written sources containing sentences formed in this tense.
Why?
Just to spur you a bit, this puzzle was solved in seconds by my students who have been being taught the tenses consistently.
So, the puzzle:
The equivalent to Present Perfect existed in Latin. It looked like "habeo factum" in this ancient language. The scholars who traced the tense's roots back to the first century A.D. (in particular, Rodríguez Molina) complain that there are quite few written sources containing sentences formed in this tense.
Why?
Top answer
Because they can speak about the past, but not have it relating to the present as it wouldn't be relevant to every (or maybe any) reader, or know when the present is.
- Because they can speak about the past, but not have it relating to the present as it wouldn't be relevant to every (or maybe any) reader, or know when the present is.
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Because they can speak about the past, but not have it relating to the present as it wouldn't be relevant to every (or maybe any) reader, or know when the present is.
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Dave PhillipsBecause they can speak about the past, but not have it relating to the present as it wouldn't be relevant to every (or maybe any) reader, or know when the present is.No, that's not the solution. You regard Present Perfect from English grammar point of view. The Latins regarded the same tense as it was meant from the very beginning - as Recent-Pas
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