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Anglista2008 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Yet another sentence (pres.perfect VS pres.perf.cont)
Hey!
Me again. With another sentence.
Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
Do you think that the underlined part should be written in the present perfect tense? If so, why is that?
Thanks!
Me again. With another sentence.
Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
Do you think that the underlined part should be written in the present perfect tense? If so, why is that?
Thanks!
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Hi, Me again. With another sentence. Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
- Hi, Me again.
- With another sentence.
- Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
- Do you think that the underlined part should be written in the present perfect tense?
- If so, why is that?
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Hi,
Me again. With another sentence.
Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
Do you think that the underlined part should be written in the present perfect tense? If so, why is that?
Me again. With another sentence.
Yet the discovery of the potentially holy relics causes such a commotion that the abbey is visited by two representatives of the New Rome who have been examining the case of Leibowitz’s sainthood.
Do you think that the underlined part should be written in the present perfect tense? If so, why is that?
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Hi,
and what about:
who have examined the case... ?
Places the examining action strongly in the past.
Makes it sound like they are no longer interested in the case at the time they visit.
Clive
and what about:
who have examined the case... ?
Places the examining action strongly in the past.
Makes it sound like they are no longer interested in the case at the time they visit.
Clive
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Thanks Clive,
Well, it always gives me a hard time... the pres. perfect and the pres. perf. cont. Sometimes I can't see any difference, for instance:
1. I have worked here for 10 years.
2. I have been working here for 10 years.
Well, it always gives me a hard time... the pres. perfect and the pres. perf. cont. Sometimes I can't see any difference, for instance:
1. I have worked here for 10 years.
2. I have been working here for 10 years.
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Hi,
Sometines no difference is intended.
Ask again when you need more help.
Clive
Sometines no difference is intended.
Ask again when you need more help.
Clive
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I'm wondering actually what makes the difference in fact. Why is that, that when we say I have worked here for 10 years and I have been working here for 10 years. there's no difference, and when we say They have been examining it... and They have examined it... there is a difference.
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Hi,
I'm wondering actually what makes the difference in fact. Why is that, that when we say I have worked here for 10 years and I have been working here for 10 years. there's no difference, and when we say They have been examining it... and They have examined it... there is a difference.
Well, for one thing, your examples w
I'm wondering actually what makes the difference in fact. Why is that, that when we say I have worked here for 10 years and I have been working here for 10 years. there's no difference, and when we say They have been examining it... and They have examined it... there is a difference.
Well, for one thing, your examples w
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