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Aramahosi Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Present perfect
Could you tell me how the present perfect in the following sentence function?
-MBLAQ has finally released the MV for their comeback title track Y!.
Or does "MBLAQ finally released the MV for their comeback title track Y!." sound strange?
quoted from http://www.allkpop.com/2010/05/mblaq-releases-y-mv
-MBLAQ has finally released the MV for their comeback title track Y!.
Or does "MBLAQ finally released the MV for their comeback title track Y!." sound strange?
quoted from http://www.allkpop.com/2010/05/mblaq-releases-y-mv
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Both are grammatically correct. The present perfect is quite often used in news items to indicate recent developments.
CJ
CJ
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Thank you very much CJ!
This might be a difficult and fundamental question. Why does the present perfect have the function to indicate recent developments unlike simple past?
This might be a difficult and fundamental question. Why does the present perfect have the function to indicate recent developments unlike simple past?
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aramahosiWhy does the present perfect have the function to indicate recent developments unlike simple past?There is no special reason why the present perfect has that function. It's just that journalists have used it that way for many, many years. Using the simple past would make the news sound more like a history lesson, and readers of newspapers would fin
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