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Describing pictures - present perfect

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00Please could you tell me if I can use present perfect while describing the picture and if the sentence below is correct? if not, please correct it (the sentence is a description of what I see in the picture) 02br
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00The bus has tilted to one side as a result of being overcrowd with people and their uneven distribution over the bus. 02br
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00The bus has tilted to one side becasue of the fact that there are to many people on it and they are distributed ubevenly. 02br
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0Please could you tell me if I can use present perfect while describing [the] A picture and if the sentence below is correct? if not, please correct it (the sentence is a description of what I see in the picture) 02br 02br 00JTT: Of course you can, Guest. As a report of the incident, the present perfect is perfectly natural in these types of situations, a finished action that is important to now.

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  • 0Please could you tell me if I can use present perfect while describing [the] A picture and if the sentence below is correct?
  • if not, please correct it (the sentence is a description of what I see in the picture) 02br 02br 00JTT: Of course you can, Guest.
  • As a report of the incident, the present perfect is perfectly natural in these types of situations, a finished action that is important to now.
  • {"corrections", I have put in capitals} 02br 02br 00The bus has tilted to one side as a result of being overcrowdED with people and ALSO BECAUSE OF THE [their] uneven distribution OF THOSE PEOPLE WITHIN [over] the bus.
  • 02br 02br 00The bus has tilted to one side because of the fact that there were [are] toO many people on it and they WERE [are] distributed uNevenly.
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0Please could you tell me if I can use present perfect while describing [the] A picture and if the sentence below is correct? if not, please correct it (the sentence is a description of what I see in the picture) 02br
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00JTT: Of course you can, Guest. As a report of the incident, the present perfect is perfectly natural in these types of situations, a finished action tha
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00Why did you use past tense in the second sentence ('were' instead of 'are") as I remeber being tought to use present tense while describing a picture. 02br
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00She is cooking, washing etc. 02br
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00Why can we not say "too
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0 I have one more question. 02br
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00Why did you use past tense in the second sentence ('were' instead of 'are") as I remember being taught to use present tense while describing a picture. 02br
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00Why can we not say "too many people are on the bus"? 02br
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0 I would not myself use 'were' instead of 'are', as that suggests the bus is tilting because of a previous overload that has since been remedied. But buses tend not to tilt once the problem that caused the tilting has been resolved. 02br
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001. ...because of the fact that there ARE too many people on it and they ARE di
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00I would not myself use 'were' instead of 'are', as that suggests the bus is tilting because of a previous overload that has since been remedied. But buses tend not to tilt once the problem that caused the tilting has been resolved. 02br
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00JTT: What we find, if we care to look to the situation as defined by the person who posed the original quer
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0 The original sentence specifies the cause of the 'tilt'. If the cause is removed, the bus will no longer tilt. 02br
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0 The original sentence specifies the cause of the 'tilt' in the picture. If the cause had been removed, the bus would no longer be tilting. 02br
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00If the bus were stuck in mud or snow, the cause of the tilt would be 'because of the fact that it's stuck in mud or snow'. 02br
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00This isn't a question about the many strange experiences travellers o
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00I would like to clarify what was in the picture. I hope that my explantions will help to agree one version as some of us (non native speakers) might be confused. 02br
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00The picture shows a bus tilting to one side, the bus is going and is full of people, there are even people on the roof of the bus. 02br
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0 In that case, Jarko, the past tense 'were' is NOT what should be used. The people ARE still on the bus. 0-
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