Timeline for Grey area between present perfect and simple past
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| Dec 25, 2017 at 1:22 | answer | added | Markell | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2017 at 20:17 | comment | added | Lambie | Great! Glad to help. | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 16:54 | history | edited | zakrapovic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 6, 2017 at 16:46 | comment | added | zakrapovic | @Lambie many thanks for your comments, it helped me | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 16:45 | history | edited | zakrapovic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 15:49 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:30 | comment | added | Lambie | "They were removed [yesterday]" or "They have been removed [unspecified as regards when". Both are correct. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:29 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | Lambie | Both are correct. It depends on what you want to say. "They were removed" [one action, over, where a specific moment in time is either stated or implied yesterday, last week, specific date, etc.). The PP has two uses: the thing continues true in the present AND/OR, and this is a BIG AND/OR, the specific time an event occurred is not important, just that it was in the past. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 14:22 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 9:39 | comment | added | rjpond | What is your exact sentence? If it is "they were removed from circulation yesterday", then the use of the word "yesterday" means that the simple past "were" is virtually mandatory. But if it's "they have been removed from circulation" then the perfect is much more likely to be used. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 9:24 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 9:19 | history | asked | zakrapovic | CC BY-SA 3.0 |