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Contraposition Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

have left to live

Start with the number 79, the average life expectancy. Now, subtract your current age. Multiply that number 365. What you have is the number of days that you have left to live.

Is 'have left' in the present perfect?
  

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contraposition Multiply that number by 365. No. As I see it, have is a present tense form and left is a participle used much in the same way as here: There is nothing left to do.

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  • contraposition Multiply that number by 365.
  • No.
  • As I see it, have is a present tense form and left is a participle used much in the same way as here: There is nothing left to do.
  • In languages with more inflections and structures than English has, there isn't even a remote possibility to think of have left , or its translation, of course, as a present perfect tense.
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contrapositionMultiply that number by 365.
No. As I see it, have is a present tense form and left is a participle used much in the same way as here: There is nothing left to do. In languages with more inflections and structures than English has, there isn't even a remote possibility
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