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Lcchang Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

TOEIC Q3

1font00Cathy Sandon (A) 01u00from02u00 the general (B) 01u00affairs02u00 department said that she has (C) 01u00ever02u00 met (D) 01u00the02u00 famous athlete.02font02br
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00The given answer says C is wrong, so I changed "01font00ever02font00" to "01font00already02font00". Am I right? 02br
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00I also found "01font00she has02font00" a little weird because the sentence must mention something that happened in the past. Why is there a present perfect tense used here? 02br
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00Please advise on my questions.02br
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00Please advise.02br
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0C is wrong02br 02br 00, before0-

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More advice please?

LCChang
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It can be either "she has already met" but that requires a pretty specific context. "Cathy, are you going to the party so you can meet Joe?" "No, I have already met him."

You can leave the space where "ever" was blank. She said that she has met him.

You can also change it to never. She said that she has never met him.

Obviously, this last one is a very different meaning
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had met is perhaps better, but for tense simplification reasons in the subordinate (See Swan), some may prefer met.

has met is OK if you want to press the present validity of the issue.
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already or never will fit. Meeting famous people is probably not a common occurrence, so never seems a little more realistic, but you never know!

Don't take the name of the tense (present perfect) too seriously. It simply means that the present state of affairs is affected by some event that happened in the past, so the idea of the past is actually invo
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