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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Business & Finance
Tense
"During the six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company has complied with the code provisions."
Should past tense "compied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time?
Should past tense "compied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time?
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" Should past tense "comp l ied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time? This situation sounds to be a little puzzling to me with regard to the use of tenses. here I give my views.
- " Should past tense "comp l ied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time?
- This situation sounds to be a little puzzling to me with regard to the use of tenses.
- here I give my views.
- Let us wait for what others have to say.
- " If the talk is going to move on with a statement like this "Hence the company can be proud of its performance" present perfect sounds better rather the right choice.
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Anonymous"During the six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company has complied with the code provisions."This situation sounds to be a little puzzling to me with regard to the use of tenses. here I give my views. Let us wait for what
Should past tense "complied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time?
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Anonymous"During the six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company has complied with the code provisions."This situation sounds to be a little puzzling to me with regard to the use of tenses. Here, I give my views. Let us wait for what
Should past tense "complied" be ised instead "has complied" as the compilation referred to a past time?
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Thanks for response.I raised this question. This type of situations are commonly mentioned in interim statments published by listed companies which reports facts in the past 6 months. Actually, the action is still going on (i.e the action of complying of the code), but it seems to me since the timeframe refers to the 6 months ended 30 June, 2011 and the date of report is later than 30th June, it
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He took pills during March 2011.
Nowadays it is more on commonsensical suitability than on anything else.
That's why I was a little doubtful with regard to your previous sentence.
Once I have my doubt cleared I will post the answer for you here.
Nowadays it is more on commonsensical suitability than on anything else.
That's why I was a little doubtful with regard to your previous sentence.
Once I have my doubt cleared I will post the answer for you here.
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