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Tommyek Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

is it completed action?

I've drunk three cups of coffee today

Is my reasoning correct?
The example sentence means that I started drinking three cups of coffee and none of them has been finished?

I think I'm right, because 'to drink' doesn't contain 'end-point' (or it does?), like 'to kick' does.

And if I want to expres that I have emptied three cups of coffee today, I should say

I've finished drinking three cups of coffee today
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Top answer

I think I've cracked it. 'to drink a cup of coffee' is like 'to empty a cup of coffee', like 'to drink a coffee up'. Now that, what does 'I have drunk coffee today' mean?

— Tommyek

  • I think I've cracked it.
  • 'to drink a cup of coffee' is like 'to empty a cup of coffee', like 'to drink a coffee up'.
  • Now that, what does 'I have drunk coffee today' mean?
  • I have drunk it since the beginning of the day?
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I think I've cracked it. 'to drink a cup of coffee' is like 'to empty a cup of coffee', like 'to drink a coffee up'.

Now that, what does 'I have drunk coffee today' mean? I have drunk it since the beginning of the day?
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I've drunk three cups of coffee today.

This is fine. You have consumed a total of three cups of coffee today.
TommyekNow that, what does 'I have drunk coffee today' mean? I have drunk it since the beginning of the day?
No. It means at some point of the day you drank coffee.

vs.

I have been drinking coffee all day
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Does 'I'm drinking coffee all day' have the same meaning as 'I have been drinking coffee all day.'?
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No. I interpret it as a shortened (and in my opinion incorrect) form of I'm going to drink coffee all day.
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