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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
How does it relate to the present?
Hi,
1. I was looking at the an Associated Press report titled "U.S. blames Shiite militia for attacks" in YAHOO! News and saw this sentence. How does the underlined verb show the pertinence to the present?
Rogue Shiite militiamen with Iranian weapons and training launched three-quarters of the attacks that killed or American forces last month in Baghdad, stepping into the void left as Sunni insurgents have been dislodged, a commander said Sunday.
2. I was also looking at an newspaper article titled "Justice minister stepping down amid alleged trouble with Roh" in The Korea Herald on its Tuesday, August 7th issue and saw these sentences which were included as the main last half part of the whole article. Please tell me what are the contexts for both 1 and 2 past tenses that are underlined. I hope I have included all the pertinent parts of the article so accurate response can be provided.
Justice Minister Kim Sung-ho has offered to resign amid rising speculation that he and President Roh Moo-hyun do not get along.
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Kim took office in August last year as the nation's 58th justice minister.
During a parliamentary interpellation session in June, Kim said that the controversia Clause of the Election Law cannot be deemed unconstitutional, in an outright refutation of President Roh's claim.
The election watch dog ruled twice in June and July that Roh had violated election laws in criticizing the GNP and its presidential hopefuls.
On June 21, Roh's office filed a petition with th Constitutional Court against teh law, which stipulates that government officials should be politically neutral.
In regard of the ongoing investigation of allegations surrounding the real estate holding of Lee Myung-bak and his brother-in-law Kim Jae-jung, the justice minister hit a sensitive chord last month by saying the probe should be stopped when the legal charges are dropped.
Lee's opponents argued that the probe should continue in order to get to the bottom of the allegations and to look into whether there 1) had been any illegal activities in the process.
The 57-year-old prosecutor-turned-minister has been largely praised by business groups as he 2) had vowed earlier in the year to create a business-friendly environment by ...
1. I was looking at the an Associated Press report titled "U.S. blames Shiite militia for attacks" in YAHOO! News and saw this sentence. How does the underlined verb show the pertinence to the present?
Rogue Shiite militiamen with Iranian weapons and training launched three-quarters of the attacks that killed or American forces last month in Baghdad, stepping into the void left as Sunni insurgents have been dislodged, a commander said Sunday.
2. I was also looking at an newspaper article titled "Justice minister stepping down amid alleged trouble with Roh" in The Korea Herald on its Tuesday, August 7th issue and saw these sentences which were included as the main last half part of the whole article. Please tell me what are the contexts for both 1 and 2 past tenses that are underlined. I hope I have included all the pertinent parts of the article so accurate response can be provided.
Justice Minister Kim Sung-ho has offered to resign amid rising speculation that he and President Roh Moo-hyun do not get along.
...
Kim took office in August last year as the nation's 58th justice minister.
During a parliamentary interpellation session in June, Kim said that the controversia Clause of the Election Law cannot be deemed unconstitutional, in an outright refutation of President Roh's claim.
The election watch dog ruled twice in June and July that Roh had violated election laws in criticizing the GNP and its presidential hopefuls.
On June 21, Roh's office filed a petition with th Constitutional Court against teh law, which stipulates that government officials should be politically neutral.
In regard of the ongoing investigation of allegations surrounding the real estate holding of Lee Myung-bak and his brother-in-law Kim Jae-jung, the justice minister hit a sensitive chord last month by saying the probe should be stopped when the legal charges are dropped.
Lee's opponents argued that the probe should continue in order to get to the bottom of the allegations and to look into whether there 1) had been any illegal activities in the process.
The 57-year-old prosecutor-turned-minister has been largely praised by business groups as he 2) had vowed earlier in the year to create a business-friendly environment by ...
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1-- It is related to the present in that it indicates that the dislodging continues now. 2-- Both past perfects seem to serve simply as emphasis.
- 1-- It is related to the present in that it indicates that the dislodging continues now.
- 2-- Both past perfects seem to serve simply as emphasis.
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1-- It is related to the present in that it indicates that the dislodging continues now.
2-- Both past perfects seem to serve simply as emphasis.
2-- Both past perfects seem to serve simply as emphasis.
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Thank you, Mr. M. As to question 1, how would this passive present perfect phrase "as Sunni insurgent have been disloged" indicate a continuing action to the present? My grammar seems to show that the present perfect expresses the idea that something happened or never happened before now or some time in the past. As to question 2, can you supply me with a very simple yet typical example of
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1-- Your grammar is not complete; present perfect serves other purposes than 'something happened or never happened before now or some time in the past'-- which sounds to me more like a definition of the simple past tense. Present perfect by definition includes an action/condition continuing from the indefinite past up to and including the present: 'I have never tasted durian'.
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