Talked about what we have read

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Our group talked about some books that we have read in Korean and decided to read the same books in English.*** *** ***Hi,How about the sentence above with "have read"?Can "have read" follow the past tense "talked" in the same sentence?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

pructus-
1 How about the sentence above with "have read"?
2 Can "have read" follow the past tense "talked" in the same sentence?

1. To my ear it's iffy.
2. Yes, it can.

'read' and 'had read' will work as easily as (or better than) 'have read', and with practically the same meaning, but 'have read' can be used, in my opinion, if you also want to include books in Korean that you may have read or continued to read even after the group talked. There seems to me to be no reason to exclude those, so 'have read' may be correct, strictly speaking, in terms of meaning.

However, if you meant only books that had already been read at the time of the group talk, then 'had read' or 'read' would be more accurate and therefore preferable.

CJ

Pructus · Answer

I see... I see..

Thanks CJ....

Talked about what we have read

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