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Dear all,Is there a difference in meaning between the following two sentences ORIs there any difference in meaning between the following two sentences :I have informed you to be at home everyday before midnight.I informed you to be at home everyday before midnight.Best Regards,Samer

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

There is not much difference in meaning.
I have told you to be at home everyday before midnight. ( It brings to present attention that I told you that in the past.)
I told you to be at home everyday before midnight. (One time in the past.)

Clive · Answer

Is there a difference in meaning between the following two sentences
OR
Is there any difference in meaning between the following two sentences :
No real difference in the above.

inform means 'give information'. You are not informing, you are telling or ordering.

I have informed you to be at home ~~everyday~~ every day (or better, every evening) before midnight.
I informed you to be at home everyday before midnight. similar edits

CalifJim · Answer

samerrustomIs there a difference in meaning between the following two sentences ORIs there any difference in meaning between the following two sentences :

I use the one with "any". I think, foolishly perhaps, that it encourages the responder to specify what the differences are instead of just saying "yes" or "no".

samerrustomI have informed you to be at home everyday before midnight.I informed you to be at home everyday before midnight.

If so little time has passed since the informing occurred that it seems to you that the informing is still relevant to the current situation, then it makes no difference. Say one. Say the other. It's all the same.
If you are talking about something that happened quite some time ago (when you were a child, when you were in college, an event from last year), then use only the simple past.
CJ

CalifJim · Answer

AlpheccaStarsThere is not much difference in meaning.I have told you to be at home everyday before midnight. ( It brings to present attention that I told you that in the past.)I told you to be at home everyday before midnight. (One time in the past.)

Alphecca,
This is an answer. Why did you make it a comment? (I'm assuming you changed the default 'yes' to 'no', but maybe not. Were you responding to the OP or to Clive's post? I'm still trying to figure out how this system works.)
Jim

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