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SSY Jung Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

have lived/lived for

Dear members

I have lived/lived in Victoria for five years.

Can I say that the sentence above  is changeable with "have lived" or "lived" according to situation?

Thank in advance.

SSY
  

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If you say 'I have lived in Victoria for five years', you are still living there. However, saying 'I lived in Victoria for five years' would mean that the speaker doesn't live in Victoria anymore. With the 'present perfect + for + a period of time', the situation continues into the present, but with the 'past simple + for + a period of time', the situation/the state no longer exists.

— TomJ

  • If you say 'I have lived in Victoria for five years', you are still living there.
  • However, saying 'I lived in Victoria for five years' would mean that the speaker doesn't live in Victoria anymore.
  • With the 'present perfect + for + a period of time', the situation continues into the present, but with the 'past simple + for + a period of time', the situation/the state no longer exists.
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If you say 'I have lived in Victoria for five years', you are still living there. However, saying 'I lived in Victoria for five years' would mean that the speaker doesn't live in Victoria anymore.
With the 'present perfect + for + a period of time', the situation continues into the present, but with the 'past simple + for + a period of time', the situation/the state no longer exists.
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