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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Is it correct to use ...

I've learned how to be a good person this summer.

In this sentence, I mentioned the time, is it correct ?
  

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It's correct as long as "this summer" continues onward after this statement. At 10 am, I could say I've been to the dry cleaners, the post office, and the car wash this morning. At 1 pm, I could not say that.

— BarbaraPA

  • It's correct as long as "this summer" continues onward after this statement.
  • At 10 am, I could say I've been to the dry cleaners, the post office, and the car wash this morning.
  • At 1 pm, I could not say that.
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It's correct as long as "this summer" continues onward after this statement.

At 10 am, I could say I've been to the dry cleaners, the post office, and the car wash this morning.

At 1 pm, I could not say that.
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It's perfectly natural to me.

I think the notion that the "action" occurred in the very recent past unnecessarily frightens people away from the present perfect.
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but I just read something like this........
"You CANNOT use the Present Perfect with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week"
from
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
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The devil is in the details. Read GG's post. [6]

with specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week"

"This summer" doesn't belong on the list. "Last summer" does.

It's okay with "today," "this year," "this week," etc.
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