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Whatchadoin Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Present perfect

Why do writers almost always introduce recent news by using present perfect?

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Also, does present perfect always indicate recent past?

I've lost my wallet.
  

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whatchadoin Why do writers almost always introduce recent news by using present perfect? Professional newsmen must make their reports sound exciting and as "immediate" as possible. They're talking about something in the past, but it's in the recent past.

— Avangi

  • whatchadoin Why do writers almost always introduce recent news by using present perfect?
  • Professional newsmen must make their reports sound exciting and as "immediate" as possible.
  • They're talking about something in the past, but it's in the recent past.
  • That's the function of the present perfect tense.
  • whatchadoin Also, does present perfect always indicate recent past?
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whatchadoinWhy do writers almost always introduce recent news by using present perfect?
Professional newsmen must make their reports sound exciting and as "immediate" as possible. They're talking about something in the past, but it's in the recent past. That's the function of the present perfect tense.
whatchadoinAlso, doe
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whatchadoinAlso, does present perfect always indicate recent past?
No. As CJ has tried to explain to you, the present perfect can also be used to simply state that something has happened, whether in the recent past or not.
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I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life. Now let me try to fix it.

Did the speaker use simple past because they were talking about an event that clearly happened in the past?
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whatchadoindoes present perfect always indicate recent past?
Often, but not always.

— Has there ever been a mass extinction of species?
— There has been such an extinction. It happened to the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.

Not particularly recent, I'd say.
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Damon: "You shouldn`t have let her die."
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Stefan: "I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life. Now let me try to
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