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XHLTS Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

"We added"or "We have added"?

Hi,

I was wondering, which one is correct, and what's the diffrence?:

1. We added photos from the concert.

2. We have added photos from the concert.

And what about this?:

1. Yahoo has uploaded a trailer for the movie.

2. Yahoo uploaded a trailer for the movie.

Thanks in advance!
  

Top answer

Hi, I was wondering, which one is correct, Both tenses are fine, but they have different meanings and focuses. : 1. We added photos from the concert.

— Clive

  • Hi, I was wondering, which one is correct, Both tenses are fine, but they have different meanings and focuses.
  • : 1.
  • We added photos from the concert.
  • Just states a fact about a past ebvent.
  • maybe it was 20 minutes ago.
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Hi,

I was wondering, which one is correct, Both tenses are fine, but they have different meanings and focuses.

and what's the diffrence?:

1. We added photos from the concert. Just states a fact about a past ebvent. maybe it was 20 minutes ago. Maybe it was 20 years ago. W
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There certainly are people that feel the way Clive does about the two "added" sentences. In particular, many speakers of British English are especially fond of present perfect tense, even to the point of saying that 'only present perfect tense is correct here' in a situation in which most speakers of American English would quite happily use simple past tense.

In my opinion, the concept of
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