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PreciousJones Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Did you eat?
My mom asks: Did you eat?
I reply with:
Yes, I ate. Or
Yes, I've eaten.
Which is correct?
I reply with:
Yes, I ate. Or
Yes, I've eaten.
Which is correct?
Top answer
To either of these questions ( Did you eat? Have you eaten? ), you are free to reply in real English with either of these answers ( Yes, I've eaten.
- To either of these questions ( Did you eat?
- Have you eaten?
- ), you are free to reply in real English with either of these answers ( Yes, I've eaten.
- Yes, I ate.
- ), but in real real English, the answers would be Yes I did , Yes I have , or just Yes.
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To either of these questions (Did you eat? Have you eaten?), you are free to reply in real English with either of these answers (Yes, I've eaten. Yes, I ate.), but in real real English, the answers would be Yes I did, Yes I have, or just Yes.
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What's the difference between real English and real real English??
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Mister MicawberThe latter is even more real.They both seem like real answers to me....
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No.
To the question 'Have you eaten?', the prescriptivist non-native teacher will demand 'Yes, I have eaten' as the response. This is simply unrealistic, quite unnatural, and not in use.
The teacher more aware of how the language works will prefer 'Yes, I ate', knowing that while the question references an indefinite past point, the answer will more naturally reflect the speaker
To the question 'Have you eaten?', the prescriptivist non-native teacher will demand 'Yes, I have eaten' as the response. This is simply unrealistic, quite unnatural, and not in use.
The teacher more aware of how the language works will prefer 'Yes, I ate', knowing that while the question references an indefinite past point, the answer will more naturally reflect the speaker
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