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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
present perfect and time
Is it ok to use the present perfect with time and date such as the following example:
Your payment has been received at 2 pm on Monday or 2/2/2015.
Your payment has been received at 2 pm on Monday or 2/2/2015.
Top answer
No. Use simple past.
- No.
- Use simple past.
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There are quite a few occasions when it's possible to use either form, but when you have located the action in the past with a specific time reference, then it's past tense every time - in writing.
Not that in informal speech, we often don't plan our sentences before we so people say things like "Yes, I've visited Germany, two years ago". What has happened here is that the speake
Not that in informal speech, we often don't plan our sentences before we so people say things like "Yes, I've visited Germany, two years ago". What has happened here is that the speake
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AlpheccaStarsNo. Use simple past.Thanks. So 'was' should be used, right?
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AnonymousSo 'was' should be usedYes. Use 'was received' instead of 'has been received'.
CJ
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CalifJim AnonymousSo 'was' should be usedYes. Use 'was received' instead of 'has been received'.CJThat was what I thought. I got confused because I purchased something from a website and they used the present perfect witha specific date, the sentence I wrote above.
Thanks again.
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AnonymousI purchased something from a website and they used the present perfect witha specific dateDon't trust the English on websites.
I would guess that the vast majority of the text on the web is written by careless writers. Speed, not quality, is the mantra of the web.
Even the teachers here make occasional mistakes, but we get called out on th
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