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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

as soon as

I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel.

Why is the perfect tense used in the subordinate clause? Can we just say...

I'll go to the convention center as soon as I check into the hotel.

Please advise.

LC
  

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I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel. Why is the perfect tense used in the subordinate clause? The present perfect tense is useful for talking about an action that was completed in the recent indefinite past.

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  • I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel.
  • Why is the perfect tense used in the subordinate clause?
  • The present perfect tense is useful for talking about an action that was completed in the recent indefinite past.
  • (I just got to the hotel and checked in.
  • ) Can we just say...
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I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel.

Why is the perfect tense used in the subordinate clause?

The present perfect tense is useful for talking about an action that was completed in the recent indefinite past.

(I just got to the hote
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The present perfect tense is used here in future time because it shows more clearly
the action of
checking into the hotel
as leading to the action of
going to the convention center.
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How about...

I'll go to the convention center since I've checked into the hotel.

Please advise.

LC
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I'll go to the convention center after I've checked into the hotel.
is more feasible (as both actions are seen to be in future time)


I'll go to the convention center since I've checked into the hotel.
OK, I've had this checked with several people and it doesn't sound strange to any
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When the main clause contains an imperative (Go ...), or a tense indicating future time (I'll go, I'm going, I go), a subordinate clause introduced by as soon as, once, or after may contain a simple present or present perfect tense with little difference in meaning. The present perfect simply emphasizes the finishing of the action in the subordinate clause before undertak
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Lcchang
I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel.

Why is the perfect tense used in the subordinate clause? Can we just say...

I'll go to the convention center as soon as I check into the hotel.

Please advise.

LC
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After gathering all different opinions from advisors like you, I would like to tell you my two cents as a non-English native speaker. It might help you understand what we think about this sentence.

I'll go to the convention center as soon as I've checked into the hotel.

When I first saw this sentence, I felt that
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I've checked in does say it's done already. Once you have gotten to the point in time when the checking in IS truly in the past (after you finish checking in), THAT is when you will go to the convention center. You will go only after checking in.

Time line: Now....what happens next is: checking in.... after that (now that the checking in is accomplished): go to the conventio
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As soon as sounds like something will happen, but I've checked into the hotel must be something that has done already.

Yes, that makes sense to me. I think Asperisic has mentioned something like this already. The will is implied in both forms, but never stated explicitly.

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