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Ruolando Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
present perfect
Hello everybody...yesterday I was leafing through the gospel of john, and I found a sentence which started some thought process...
In the famous episode of the raising of Lazarus, Jesus, in order to know where Lazarus' s tomb is, asks: where have you laid him? In all the various version I could find online, all translators use the present perfect, as in the question above...I would have used the past simple: Where did you lay him?, because to me the action is in the past...what do you native speakers think? Thank you in advance.
In the famous episode of the raising of Lazarus, Jesus, in order to know where Lazarus' s tomb is, asks: where have you laid him? In all the various version I could find online, all translators use the present perfect, as in the question above...I would have used the past simple: Where did you lay him?, because to me the action is in the past...what do you native speakers think? Thank you in advance.
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The present perfect is good, as the event happened recently.
- The present perfect is good, as the event happened recently.
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Thank you very much for your reply...I still do not understand completely why they use such tense, because, even if the event is in the recent past, to me it is like:
have you eaten? Yes, I have just had lunch...where did you eat?
have you eaten? Yes, I have just had lunch...where did you eat?
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