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Paco2004 Posted 21 years ago
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I have eaten lunch

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00This morning I got a question from a teacher who is now teaching 'present perfect tense' in a high school English class. 02br
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00What is "I have eaten lunch" most likely to mean in the case no context is given? 02br
00Does it mean "I finished (eating) lunch just now" or "I ate lunch sometime in the past"? 02br
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00I answered I choose rather the latter, but I was not so sure. 02br
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00Could you tell me your choice and its reason? 02br
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0 Considering that someone is more likely to want to know if you are hungry at the moment than if you have ever in your life had the experience of eating lunch, I would vote for the former. ) 0-

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  • 0 Considering that someone is more likely to want to know if you are hungry at the moment than if you have ever in your life had the experience of eating lunch, I would vote for the former.
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0 Considering that someone is more likely to want to know if you are hungry at the moment than if you have ever in your life had the experience of eating lunch, I would vote for the former. On the other hand, if the sentence is "I have eaten buffalo tail," it is more likely to mean "Once, long ago, on a dare, when I was drunk, I ate buffalo tail." 02br
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0 Hello Khoff 02br
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00So do you mean like this? 02br
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00If you say "I have eaten sushi", you mean "I once ate sushi", and if I say "I have eten sushi", you take I am meaning "I finished eating sushi right now". 02br
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0 I think the idea is that semantically the present perfect simply refers to some time in the past, but pragmatically the distance in the past is dependent on the specifics of the situation. 02br
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00Cases where a greater amount of time before the present moment is under consideration are the less common activities. 02br
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0 Hello CJ 02br
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00Thank you for the great answer. 02br
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00The idea is semantically the present perfect simply refers to some time in the past, but pragmatically the distance in the past is dependent on the specifics of the situation. 12br
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0 This morning I got a question from a teacher who is now teaching 'present perfect tense' in a high school English class. 02br
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00What is "I have eaten lunch" most likely to mean in the case no context is given? 02br
00Does it mean "I finished (eating) lunch just now" or "I ate lunch sometime in the past
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0 Welcome to English Forums, Just the Trout... 02br
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0 To paco, 02br
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00Supposing a student were to ask his classmate, "Have you seen my pencil?", would he mean, "Have you seen my pencil now/a moment ago?" or would he mean, "Have you seen my pencil in your whole life?" 02br
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00From my experience, no matter which language, "Have you seen my pencil?", is translated, it would still mean, "Have you seen
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0 I may be misreading your response, temico. 02br
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00the only one of your sentences that can be used with "have you seen" (present perfect progressive) is no 4; 02br
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00All the others require "Did you see...?" 0-
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0 To Just The Trout, 02br
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00Welcome to the Forums... 02br
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00To me, "I've eaten lunch", or "I've just had lunch", implies that you don't feel like eating anymore, that you're no longer hungry, along with the fact that you ate your lunch a short 01del00logically02del00 time before. 0-
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0 Hello! Please allow me to put a word in. 02br
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00I've been thinking: there is one sure thing about the difference between Simple Past and Present Perfect. 02br
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00(1) John ate lunch. ? John's eating event is located in the past world and it is possible that John does not exist in the present world. 02br
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00(2) John has e
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