Timeline for Canonical Post #2: What is the perfect, and how should I use it?
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| Aug 4, 2021 at 23:39 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | "But what ‘requires’ the past perfect there and forbids a simple past is not the time sequence but the adverbials at the time his first play was produced and already, which both locate the later endpoint of the Event Time timeframe at Reference Time." - as a native speaker, I found this sentence incredibly difficult to parse. That use of "But what...is not...." is pretty taxing. | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 20:10 | history | bounty ended | ColleenV | ||
| Jan 3, 2018 at 20:10 | comment | added | bart | Kindly find the details of my question here: ell.stackexchange.com/questions/152242/… Sorry but I couldn't have a specific answer where you can also see in the comments section of the answer on the link. | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 20:03 | comment | added | bart | Big thanks StoneyB for such elaborate work! I've been reading your posts as I am having trouble with present perfect. The more English I speak the more contexts I am discovering where I feel puzzled with the use of present perfect. Please allow me to ask my humble question to you. For the actions in recent past sometimes we omit time adverb "just" and say "I have eaten", "I have finished" etc. I don't understand why we cannot do the same thing for the verb think and say "I have thought the same thing"? Is this about pragmatic meaning you describe? | |
| Sep 21, 2017 at 20:30 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 15:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by StoneyB on hiatus | ||
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:55 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 14, 2017 at 15:30 | history | edited | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2016 at 2:07 | comment | added | Gamal Thomas | Thank you so much Stoney for this rich information that you put it very well. It is of much help. Thank you again | |
| May 17, 2016 at 21:41 | comment | added | user33000 | If I was allowed to up vote your posts more than once, I would defenetly do it nonstop untill I felt satisfied. I feel you are a truly generous person who shares knowledge with spending tremendous time and effort, all free to people you barely know, if ever. So tip of the hat. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 12:04 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2013 at 12:31 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |