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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Past or present dont no

That would be the most stupid thing I've ever done. - I ever did.
  

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It does depend on who's saying it but normally people would use the present perfect as they still could do something even more stupid yet. If it was being said by a very old person who wouldn't live much longer they may use the past simple but generally the present perfect is used.

— Dave Phillips

  • It does depend on who's saying it but normally people would use the present perfect as they still could do something even more stupid yet.
  • If it was being said by a very old person who wouldn't live much longer they may use the past simple but generally the present perfect is used.
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It does depend on who's saying it but normally people would use the present perfect as they still could do something even more stupid yet. If it was being said by a very old person who wouldn't live much longer they may use the past simple but generally the present perfect is used.
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Both are correct. The past tense is commonly used in American English with always, never and ever:

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
(Mark Twain)

CB
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From the fluency and linguistic point of view, "ever" is normally used in the present perfect context; even though there are those who don't care much about the finer point of grammar do use it in past tense.
AnonymousThat would be the most stupid thing I've ever done
This would be what is considered correct form of collocation.
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