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Teo Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

I loved/love it.

0I've read your book - and I __ it! (A) love (B) loved02br
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0Either answer seems to work for me, but if I had to pick I would go with (A).0-
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0 I too would like to choose "love". It does not come from grammatical consideration. The choice comes from the consideration about how effectively the speaker could convey his/her feeling to the collocutor. The choice of "loved" sounds rather flat, but that of "love" conveys a notion that he/she not only loved it when reading but also still now loves it.02br
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0I think I would say "I read your book and I loved it" or "I've read your book and I love it".02br
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00With "I've read your book and I loved it", it seems incongruous to bring the act of reading it into present focus, but to place the process of "loving it" firmly in the past.02br
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