Timeline for Canonical Post #2: What is the perfect, and how should I use it?
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| Nov 25, 2023 at 15:07 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Nov 12, 2023 at 18:32 | comment | added | Lambie | Present, past and future perfect are all different. It is wrong to simply say perfect. | |
| S Oct 27, 2022 at 1:06 | history | suggested | MweeyLoo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Sep 5, 2022 at 23:45 | history | notice added | DialFrost | Reward existing answer | |
| Aug 8, 2022 at 13:45 | history | edited | Laurel♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2022 at 0:20 | history | edited | gotube♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 3, 2021 at 19:21 | history | bounty started | ColleenV | ||
| S Mar 3, 2021 at 19:21 | history | notice added | ColleenV | Draw attention | |
| Jun 18, 2019 at 22:24 | comment | added | jonathanjo | What a great post! My only suggestion would be to add a simple example somewhere very early in the post. Otherwise the first examples aren't until part 2, and they are complex examples and counterexamples. A couple of examples would go well in the short answer of "How do I recognise" too. | |
| May 25, 2018 at 10:23 | history | edited | J.R.♦ |
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| Apr 28, 2017 at 16:29 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @user178049 Not necessarily, because the Reference Time of a so-called 'present tense' form may be future or hypothetical. Consider the sentence "When you are here we will discuss this"--present-tense are actually refers to a future eventuality. Likewise, in "When you have finished we will discuss this" the present perfect refers to a future state which refers to a prior eventuality of "finishing"--and that eventuality is presumed to lie in the future also, just not as far in the future. | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 15:58 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | @StoneyB Reference Time in present perfect is always present right? | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 12:32 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @user178049 An 'eventuality' may be a state or an event; a prior eventuality is an eventuality which occurs before Reference Time. See 3.1.3. | |
| Apr 28, 2017 at 9:14 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | @StoneyB I think that my understanding is wrong. What do you mean by "prior eventuality"? Does it mean the result or outcome of the event? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:55 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 16, 2016 at 10:24 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @P.E.Dant I'll stand by it. I don't mean "The best rules I can offer", I mean "The best {thing/substance/matter} for your guidance I can offer", and a verb (even a copula) agrees with its subject, not its complement. | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 4:05 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | @StoneyB, With a username like mine, how can I be expected to overlook a mistake in number (even one which decreases the inestimable value of this post by nary a whit?) I refer to the second sentence in paragraph 4: "The best I can offer is rules of thumb." This should be "are," and might be more felicitously phrased as "Rules of thumb are the best I can offer." Far be it from me to attempt an edit here, though. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 12:13 | comment | added | Cardinal | Wow, I really liked these posts (canonical), thank you. There are really interesting "Must-Learn" lessons :) | |
| May 29, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus |
@Ilan I don't; I say * haven't ate, just after I tell you that a preceding * marks an unacceptable form.
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| May 29, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Ilan | why do you use I haven’t ate yet instead of I haven’t eaten yet??? | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 19:21 | comment | added | Stefan Weiss | This is really amazing and I respect anyone who's willing to spend so much time and efforts to help others. Thanks again..! | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 12:03 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2013 at 10:57 | comment | added | Shoe | This is an outstanding resource. Thank you for the time and effort you have devoted to it. I hope that future answerers on this site and on ELU will refer to this resource in any response to a question about the perfect construction. | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 18:46 | comment | added | WendiKidd | Ah, brilliant!! I'm so glad you've posted this! And wow, I cannot even imagine how much time and effort went into this. Thank you so much, I'm sure it will be an excellent resource for our users! I'm off to meta to announce this :) | |
| Nov 16, 2013 at 13:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/401696883607093248 | ||
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:22 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:07 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:01 | history | asked | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |