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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
past in one and present perfect in another
Hi,
Whenever an error occurs in this forum, something like below seems to come up. I wonder why one sentence has a past tense and another has a present perfect tense. What could be the reason? If both are relevant, will it not be reasonable/correct to put both in present perfect? The same dilemma occurs in my writing situations too.
(I am talking about these part of the message below:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error.)
Please click here to try again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.
You may also wish to .
Whenever an error occurs in this forum, something like below seems to come up. I wonder why one sentence has a past tense and another has a present perfect tense. What could be the reason? If both are relevant, will it not be reasonable/correct to put both in present perfect? The same dilemma occurs in my writing situations too.
(I am talking about these part of the message below:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error.)
Oops something went wrong!
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error.Please click here to try again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.
You may also wish to .
Top answer
Either tense would be appropriate in both cases. Personal choice, I think.
- Either tense would be appropriate in both cases.
- Personal choice, I think.
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Either tense would be appropriate in both cases. Personal choice, I think.
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Past concern: What happened? An error occurred.
Present concern: What has been done about it? We have logged the error.
Unexpected events are usually expressed in the simple past.
Actions taken to handle such events are usually expressed in the present perfect. The implication is often "Don't worry. The situation has been taken care of".
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-- What
Present concern: What has been done about it? We have logged the error.
Unexpected events are usually expressed in the simple past.
Actions taken to handle such events are usually expressed in the present perfect. The implication is often "Don't worry. The situation has been taken care of".
_____
-- What
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Thank you, all.
I think I could have written it like this (puttting two events in pressent perfect to stress a whole relevance):
part of the error message:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error.)
My possible version:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We have logged th
I think I could have written it like this (puttting two events in pressent perfect to stress a whole relevance):
part of the error message:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error.)
My possible version:
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We have logged th
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Anonymousputtting two events in presYou don't have any example with two events in the present perfect.sent perfect
But your version is correct as you wrote it.
CJ
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Thank you, again. I should have caught that mistake/error earlier.
Would this make sense to you, that is putting two events in present perfect tenses as I said before?
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error has occurred. We have logged the error. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Would this make sense to you, that is putting two events in present perfect tenses as I said before?
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error has occurred. We have logged the error. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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