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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Recent past tense

Good day, readers:

I'm trying to find some rules surrounding the recent past tense - just, just now, recently, etc., and the use of present perfect with time adverbials.

For example, "The press release (has) just the wire." Based on a quick Google search, 'has' is omitted from many sentences that I've stumbled upon. Is there a set rule to follow in this case?

Thanks.
  

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, and the use of present perfect with time adverbials. " Based on a quick Google search, 'has' is omitted from many sentences that I've stumbled upon. probably because it's not necessary Do you want to give us some examples of the 'missing' "has"?

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  • , and the use of present perfect with time adverbials.
  • " Based on a quick Google search, 'has' is omitted from many sentences that I've stumbled upon.
  • probably because it's not necessary Do you want to give us some examples of the 'missing' "has"?
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I'm trying to find some rules surrounding the recent past tense - just, just now, recently, etc., and the use of present perfect with time adverbials.
For example, "The press release (has) just (There's a verb missing here.) the wire." Based on a quick Google search, 'has' is omitted from many sentences that I've stumbled upon. probably because it's not n
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There are myriad ways of expressing this, depending on the context. Some examples:

The press release just hit the wire.
The news was just released.
The news was just released a minute ago.
Flash! This was just released.
Hold everything! This just came in.
Hold the presses! This just arrived.
Just released, and we're the only ones who've got it.
Hot off the
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It was just released, and we're the only ones (who got)(who've gotten) it.
(We've gotten)(We got) an exclusive scoop. This just came in.
The above two sentences, now corrected, are the only ones that were wrong in North America.
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