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Nid01 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

present perfect + present perfect or present perfect + past simple ?

Hello. Should I say : "I've sent you a gift and I've written your name on it." or : "I've sent you a gift and wrote your name on it."
  

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You can say either " I've sent you a gift and I've written your name on it" or " I've sent you a gift and written your name on it" . The tense is the same. You have sent.

— MrGuedes

  • You can say either " I've sent you a gift and I've written your name on it" or " I've sent you a gift and written your name on it" .
  • The tense is the same.
  • You have sent.
  • And you have written.
  • Those actions' tense is the same.
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You can say either "I've sent you a gift and I've written your name on it" or "I've sent you a gift and written your name on it". The tense is the same. You have sent. And you have written. Those actions' tense is the same. You mustn't change one of them just because it is in a sentence with another action of the same tense.

Besides that, because
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These are all possibilities:

I've sent you a gift and written your name on it.
I sent you a gift and wrote your name on it.
I sent you a gift with your name on it.
I sent you a gift with your name written on it. (This is my favorite of the bunch.)
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