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Roky0071 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Present perfect vs past simple
When I was watching "Divergent" with English subtitle, I noticed few conversations.The conversations are as follows: "It was a choosing ceremony day for Beatrice (the main character).So she climbed up the bridge with other guys.She was standing by the side of the train lines on the bridge and suddenly a train is coming towards them.Everyone started running with the train and getting on the train compartments.At last Beatric started running with the train, after few attempts, she managed to board on the last compartment and looked down to see that there was no space for running.As she boarded the compartment, inside the compartment, a girl says "you made it.I'm Christina.and so on".The conversation continues. This is the context:
I know that present perfect is used in British-English such as "You have made it" and past simple used in American-English such as "You made it" for actions just completed.I also know that both British and American use simple past if the actions not just completed such as "You made it (this bag) at home in 2015. Now my question is:
Am I correct to say that the present perfect tense (you have made it) has no boundaries.the event in present perfect tense may happen again and again and past simple tense (you made it) has a boundary.once the event happened, It stopped there, may not happen again and it can not cross the boundary? I have tried my best level. Plese, get me clear.
I know that present perfect is used in British-English such as "You have made it" and past simple used in American-English such as "You made it" for actions just completed.I also know that both British and American use simple past if the actions not just completed such as "You made it (this bag) at home in 2015. Now my question is:
Am I correct to say that the present perfect tense (you have made it) has no boundaries.the event in present perfect tense may happen again and again and past simple tense (you made it) has a boundary.once the event happened, It stopped there, may not happen again and it can not cross the boundary? I have tried my best level. Plese, get me clear.
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Your mention of event boundaries does make sense. You made it , meaning You succeeded , is a bounded event, so the past is more appropriate than the present perfect (though both are grammatically correct). I doubt that there is any difference between AmE and BrE in this example.
- Your mention of event boundaries does make sense.
- You made it , meaning You succeeded , is a bounded event, so the past is more appropriate than the present perfect (though both are grammatically correct).
- I doubt that there is any difference between AmE and BrE in this example.
- CJ
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Your mention of event boundaries does make sense. You made it, meaning You succeeded, is a bounded event, so the past is more appropriate than the present perfect (though both are grammatically correct). I doubt that there is any difference between AmE and BrE in this example.
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