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Carter Lee Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

how can i use phrase?

Hi
Yesterday, i got a taken a creadit card from my wife. Because that card was needed to charge bounus as per gas liter.
But today i forgot that i have to give the card to my wife.
So i have been embrassed on going.
  

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Yesterday, I got a taken took a credit card from my wife . B because I needed that card to buy gas. But today, I forgot that I had to give the card back to my wife.

  • Yesterday, I got a taken took a credit card from my wife .
  • B because I needed that card to buy gas.
  • But today, I forgot that I had to give the card back to my wife.
  • So I was embarrassed.
  • The word "I" is always capital.
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Yesterday, I got a taken took a credit card from my wife. B because I needed that card to buy gas.
But today, I forgot that I had to give th
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I have confusion about between "So I have been embrassed on going." and "So I was embarrassed".

As I know, former sentence is made by present prefect sentence and latter is simple past.
So Might be I think I have to use former what "present perfect sentence" aren't you? Because that fact's state is on going now.
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No, you are embarrassed.

Embarrassed is a "state" not an action so use the present tense if you are embarrassed NOW and use the past if were embarrassed THEN.

Don't use the present perfect.
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Carter Lee"So I have been embarrassed on going."
Did you intend to put "on going" within the quotes? I wonder whether you may be getting mixed up with the adjective "ongoing" (one word, no space). This means that something is/was still happening. For example, you can talk of "ongoing embarrassment". You cannot say "I have been embrassed ongoing". It is ungramm
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Thanks let me know that. GPY and all.
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Hi
I have a curiosity about how/where US native English user cut off read and think above in sentence?
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You can use the present perfect, but the grammar is quite advanced.

I was embarrassed. (at that time in the past.)
I am embarrassed. (now)
I am still embarrassed. (the entire period of time from the start to now.)
I have been embarrassed ever since. (The adverb phrase "ever since" has the same meaning as "still".)

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