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Carrot Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Never Met or Have Never Met, and alike....

0 I have a little issue... Can anyone tell me what is a difference between I have never met her, and I never met her. For me both mean the same thing, but there are 2 tenses, and it's totally messing me up. Thanks....0-
  

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0 1. 01i 00I have never met he02i 00r = not ever, not at any time. 02br 02br 00 2.

— Conchita57

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  • 01i 00I have never met he02i 00r = not ever, not at any time.
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0 1. 01i00I have never met he02i00r = not ever, not at any time. The present perfect is normally used with 01u00unspecific 02u00time expressions such as: never, ever, already, yet, before, etc.02br
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00 2. 01i00 I never met her02i00 is grammatically incorrect, unless we specify or imply a time in the
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0 Hi,02br
00I agree with Conchita. However, I would just like to add an idea. 02br
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00The present perfect in the sentence 01b00'I have never met her.'02b00 means that the subject 01b00does not have the experience02b00 of meeting her. It did not happen before, so 01b00it is not part of his experience 0
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0Thank you guys for make it simplier 05002br
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00but it is not only such example.... i heard things like " i never saw the show" "i never was there" 02br
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00so what about these? i thought the expression "never" is used only in perfect's tenses... because it's never happened so we have no idea how the things, events are like... can
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0 Hello again,02br
00Well, never is possible in different tenses. In present perferct -I've never seen anything like it. In past tense -I never talked to her. I present simple -I never smoke. future simple -I will never disappoint you.02br
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0ohh yeah... thaks a lot 05000 that was my mistake 05100 I know we can use "never" in many tenses, it is obvious, and I don't know why I wrote I thought we couldn't... cuz that was not what i meant... but i think i just understood.... if I would have any more questions, I'll talk to you 05202br
00thanks a lot 053010id111id512id513id5
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0 No problem.02br
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0 Well, i know in American English we usually discard the present perfect tense.So,is it right to use "I never saw her before" to convey the same meaning of "I've never seen her before" , if for example,we are in the US? 0-
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0 Hmmm. I certainly have HEARD things like this, but if you say "Pardon me? What did you say" I suspect that many people would "correct" themselvs and say "I said that I've never seen her before." 0-
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