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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

present perfect

01 Linda has lost her passport again.02br
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002 Linda lost her passport again.02br
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00Can 1 or 2 be used as both 1st and 2nd hand account?0-
  

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02font 02br 02br 01font 00Can 1 or 2 be used as both 1st and 2nd hand account? 02br 02br 00I'm not clear on what you mean by a first-hand account. 'First-hand' sounds to me like a sentence that Linda herself would say, using the pronoun 'I'.

— Clive

  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Can 1 or 2 be used as both 1st and 2nd hand account?
  • 02br 02br 00I'm not clear on what you mean by a first-hand account.
  • 'First-hand' sounds to me like a sentence that Linda herself would say, using the pronoun 'I'.
  • 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font001 Linda has lost her passport again.02font02br
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01font002 Linda lost her passport again.02font02br
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01font00Can 1 or 2 be used as both 1st and 2nd hand account? 02font00These both are fine.0
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10Hi,12br
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11font101 Linda has lost her passport again.12font12br
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11font102 Linda lost her passport again.12font12br
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11font10Can 1
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0 Out of context, we don't know if Mary has heard the news from another person aprt from Linda. 0-
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0In Turkish there is simple past which is used to tell things that you witnessed when they happened and, there is the other one which is used to tell the things happened in past that you didn't witness.02br
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00Simple past(Tr) is equivalent to the simple past in English but, Turkish doesn't have 'perfect tense', so Turkish uses different tenses when explaining 'perfect' a
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1font00I hear/heard (that) Linda has lost her passport again.02font02br
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01font00I hear/heard (that) Linda lost her passport again.02font0-
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0 One correction on 'heard past tense.'02br
00The suffix that is used 'alone' informing you 'heard' something can be used in all tenses in Turkish.02br
00So it is not the heard past tense. It is not a tense clearly nor a tense suffix but kind of 'hear/heard' suffix.02br
00*But, sometimes, I wonder too whether there is a way to distinguish, while telling someth
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0Hi,02br
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01font00is there such thing in English ?00 I think you'd have to say it explicitly eg, I saw, I heard, I witnessed, etc.02font02br
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00I have a question. If you use the Turkish tense that you are referring to, does it mean02br
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01i00I saw Linda lose her passport 02i
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10Hi,12br
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11font10is there such thing in English ?10 I think you'd have to say it explicitly eg, I saw, I heard, I witnessed, etc.12font12br
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10I have a question. If you use the Turkish tense that you are referring to
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01cite10Diamondrg12cite11i10Mary: Linda has lost her passport.12i12br
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11i10Mary says when asked to comment on her statement:12i12br
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10a) I was with Linda then. I saw it.12br
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10b) I don't know if this is tue or not, I wasn't there, bu
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0Hi again,02br
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01font00 Maybe this multiple choice question can shed further light on my meaning:02font02br
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01i01font00Mary: Linda has lost her passport.02font02i02br
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01i01font00Mary says when asked to
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