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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Tense

I'VE CUT MY HAIR. Which tense is this? i presume it's present perfect but what is the connection with now, because the hair was already cut before. Pls help.

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Hello, it's Present Perfect (S + have/has + V_ed/V_past participle) You cut your hair before you say this, but you don't know the exact time in the past. And now, people still can see that your hair is cut. If you can identify the time when you started cutting your hair, you can use Simple Past.

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  • Hello, it's Present Perfect (S + have/has + V_ed/V_past participle) You cut your hair before you say this, but you don't know the exact time in the past.
  • And now, people still can see that your hair is cut.
  • If you can identify the time when you started cutting your hair, you can use Simple Past.
  • Ex: Last night , I cut my hair.
  • Yesterday , I cut my hair.
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Hello, it's Present Perfect (S + have/has + V_ed/V_past participle)
You cut your hair before you say this, but you don't know the exact time in the past. And now, people still can see that your hair is cut.
If you can identify the time when you started cutting your hair, you can use Simple Past.
Ex: Last night, I cut my hair.
Yesterday, I cut my hair.
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This is a very common use of the present perfect to talk about a past, finished action. The connection with now is that the hair is, well, "shorter" as a result of the past action.

If we break this connection with the present, then we can't normally use the present perfect.

Examples of breaking the connection (notice how both actions are past, finished, but only one action has a
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