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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Sentence possibility

Are both 'have started' and just 'started' possible in this sentence?

I was wondering if you started working on your project.

I was wondering if you have started working on your project.

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Anonymous Are both 'have started' and just 'started' possible in this sentence? Or 'had started'.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Are both 'have started' and just 'started' possible in this sentence?
  • Or 'had started'.
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AnonymousAre both 'have started' and just 'started' possible in this sentence?
Or 'had started'.
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Mister MicawberOr 'had started'.
Got it. Thanks very much teacher.

I am assuming that my examples with the simple past (started) and present perfect (have started) don’t have much of a difference in meaning in this sentence, except that maybe the the present perfect focuses on the present, But I think that the the use of the simple past also implies t
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Yes. The simple past just seems to place the act a bit farther back in time.
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