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Rotter Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Has or has had
1 b 00 Chaldeans are members of an autonomous Catholic Church that retains a unique liturgy and tradition while recognising the Pope's authority. 02 b 02 br
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00 Chaldeans form the majority - about 550,000 - of Iraq's estimated 700,000 Christians. 02 br
00 Their spiritual leader, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly, is based in Baghdad. He was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. 02 br
00 His Church originally comprised members of the Nestorian Church, and has had a presence in the country now known as Iraq since the 2nd Century. 02 br
00 Nestorianism ascribes to the belief that Jesus Christ has two natures - that of a divine being, the Son of a God, and that of a mortal human. 02 br
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00 The Eastern-rite Church the Chaldeans belong to has a traditional liturgical language, Syriac - a linguistic descendant of Aramaic, the language thought by most scholars to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples. 02 br
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00 My question is on the following sentence of the above: 02 br
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00 His Church originally comprised members of the Nestorian Church, and has had a presence in the country now known as Iraq since the 2nd Century. 02 br
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01 b 00 Why is it necessary to write 'has had a presence in the country now known Iraq since 2nd Century'? 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 It is enough to write 'has a presence in the country now known Iraq since 2nd Century' 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 What do you think? 02 b 02 br
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00 Chaldeans form the majority - about 550,000 - of Iraq's estimated 700,000 Christians. 02 br
00 Their spiritual leader, Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly, is based in Baghdad. He was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007. 02 br
00 His Church originally comprised members of the Nestorian Church, and has had a presence in the country now known as Iraq since the 2nd Century. 02 br
00 Nestorianism ascribes to the belief that Jesus Christ has two natures - that of a divine being, the Son of a God, and that of a mortal human. 02 br
02 br
00 The Eastern-rite Church the Chaldeans belong to has a traditional liturgical language, Syriac - a linguistic descendant of Aramaic, the language thought by most scholars to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples. 02 br
00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 br
00 My question is on the following sentence of the above: 02 br
02 br
00 His Church originally comprised members of the Nestorian Church, and has had a presence in the country now known as Iraq since the 2nd Century. 02 br
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01 b 00 Why is it necessary to write 'has had a presence in the country now known Iraq since 2nd Century'? 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 It is enough to write 'has a presence in the country now known Iraq since 2nd Century' 02 b 02 br
01 b 00 What do you think? 02 b 02 br
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0 I think you need the "had" to show continuous action 01 b 01 i 01 u 00 since 02 u 02 i 02 b 00 the 2nd Century. " 0-
- 0 I think you need the "had" to show continuous action 01 b 01 i 01 u 00 since 02 u 02 i 02 b 00 the 2nd Century.
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0 I think you need the "had" to show continuous action 01 b 01 i 01 u 00 since 02 u 02 i 02 b 00 the 2nd Century. "Has a presence" alone can only mean present tense, and we get jolted when we come to the "since." 0-
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