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Bamtori Posted 17 years ago
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Grwoing up, I spent // Growing up I have learned
Please help me with the tenses (past simple and present perfect) in this:
I was raised on a small farm in Central Wisconsin. Growing up, I spent a great deal of time enjoying the outdoors, fishing and hunting. Much of my appreciation was learned from spending time with my grandfather, who spent his life actually living off the land. Thankfully with these opportunities growing up, I have learned to truly love nature and spending time in the outdoors.
After the first "growing up" the past simple "spent" was used while after the second "growing up" the present perfect simple was used. The writer is an adult now so I understand him using the word "spent" as he's not a child or teenager anymore and the growing up has been finished now. For the "have learned", was it used because the learning has some effect in the present time, like the writer have learned it growing up and knows it as an adult now? Thank you.
I was raised on a small farm in Central Wisconsin. Growing up, I spent a great deal of time enjoying the outdoors, fishing and hunting. Much of my appreciation was learned from spending time with my grandfather, who spent his life actually living off the land. Thankfully with these opportunities growing up, I have learned to truly love nature and spending time in the outdoors.
After the first "growing up" the past simple "spent" was used while after the second "growing up" the present perfect simple was used. The writer is an adult now so I understand him using the word "spent" as he's not a child or teenager anymore and the growing up has been finished now. For the "have learned", was it used because the learning has some effect in the present time, like the writer have learned it growing up and knows it as an adult now? Thank you.
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Bamtori For the "have learned", was it used because the learning has some effect in the present time, like the writer has learned it growing up and knows it as an adult now? Thank you. Bamton: Yes, you are right.
- Bamtori For the "have learned", was it used because the learning has some effect in the present time, like the writer has learned it growing up and knows it as an adult now?
- Thank you.
- Bamton: Yes, you are right.
- The writer is implying that through his life, he has recalled these memories, and still learns while he thinks about his childhood.
- Perhaps every time he goes hunting and fishing now, it brings back very happy memories of his grandfather.
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BamtoriFor the "have learned", was it used because the learning has some effect in the present time, like the writer has learned it growing up and knows it as an adult now? Thank you.Bamton:
Yes, you are right. The writer is implying that through his life, he has recalled these memories, and still learns while he thinks about his childhood. Perhaps
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