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Tracyteo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Reading Comprehension

This is the way I digest information when I read English novels.
Q: I want to know if I do it in the right way.

Sentence1: Tom certainly does not deserve to be suspected. He has saved Jane from the giant octopus.
Digest 1: Has, indicates that the action happened
Digest 2: Saved, indicates that what Tom did
Has saved, indicates a single occurrence that Tom did in the past
  

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tracyteo This is the way I digest information when I read English novels. Q: I want to know if I do it in the right way. So far, so good.

— Mister Micawber

  • tracyteo This is the way I digest information when I read English novels.
  • Q: I want to know if I do it in the right way.
  • So far, so good.
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tracyteoThis is the way I digest information when I read English novels. Q: I want to know if I do it in the right way.
So far, so good.
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Mister Micawber, thank you for the reply.
I have another question under the same topic.
I know ‘sentence 2’ is wrong. I just want to point out the problem I am having with reading comprehension.

Sentence 2: I have graduated a long time ago.
Digest 1: Have, indicates that the action happened
Digest 2: Graduated, indicates that something that I achieved
Have graduated, i
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tracyteoQ: I want to know why can't I use the same way to digest sentence 1 on sentence 2.
Perhaps because S2 is wrong: it should be in simple past tense because it contains a time reference ('ago') that situates it completely in the past.
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Q: What other words or phrases, besides 'ago', that refer to specific past-time references?
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tracyteoQ: What other words or phrases, besides 'ago', that refer to specific past-time references?
There is probably a limitless list of them:

yesterday
last year
1972
during the Pleistocene
when I was born
etc.
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