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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

They disappeared a three days ago

They disappeared three days ago.
or
They have disappeared three days ago.
(They are missing now)
Which one is correct? what is the difference?
  

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Anonymous They disappeared three days ago That is correct. A statement of a specified past time calls for simple past verb forms.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous They disappeared three days ago That is correct.
  • A statement of a specified past time calls for simple past verb forms.
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AnonymousThey disappeared three days ago
That is correct. A statement of a specified past time calls for simple past verb forms.
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Or you could say this.

They have disappeared. It happened three days ago.
(They are missing now)

Or
They have been missing for three days.
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