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Voytaszek Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Did a foreign languages study affect your fluency in your native tongue?

Should I have used the Present Perfect or this qustion was formulated in right manner?

I asked this question on a language learners forum.
  

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' Voytaszek Should I have used the Present Perfect or was this question was formulated in the right manner? (or 'correctly formulated')

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I would have said 'Did studying foreign languages affect your fluency in your native tongue?'
VoytaszekShould I have used the Present Perfect or was this question was formulated in the right manner? (or 'correctly formulated')
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What if I had used the Present Perfect instead of the Past Simple?
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Can you put it in the present perfect to make it sound right? If you give me a version that you think works, I'll see whether I agree!
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ok, here it is:

Has studying foreign languages affected your fluency in your native tongue?'
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That's an alternative version that I'd also think perfectly acceptable. You now have two good versions that would serve as accurate, natural questions.
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VoytaszekShould I have used the Present Perfect or this qustion was formulated in right manner?I asked this question on a language learners forum.
Could you point out the exact difference in the meaning between these sentences? Please.
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'Has' suggests that you are learning now and the effects are happening now. 'Did' suggests that the learning was in the past and the effects may also be, but the subtle difference isn't likely to be considered important as we are learning all the time, we don't just stop, yet we learned a language formally at a particular time... It's fair to use both examples!
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VoytaszekPresent Perfect instead of the Past Simple?
Has it affected your fluency?
[.........................................]X
< at any time before now >
You are considering all time before now without any gaps.
Was the effect at any time before now?
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Did it affect your fluency?
[...........] ...........
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The same difference beween these two sentences?

1. Did someone use the reresher for this application?

2. Has someone used the reresher for this application?
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Voytaszeksame difference
Yes. Although there are some exceptions, the past tense always talks about something that happened in a time period that ended in the past, leaving a time gap between then and the present that is not being talked about at all. And the present perfect always talks about something that could have happened at any time in the past, leavi
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