Timeline for Have deserved (Present Perfect)
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| Jun 7 at 17:08 | comment | added | ohshitgorillas | @PabloDescamisado Those are incorrect for the reasons Andy pointed out. 'Earned' works in each of your examples, but 'deserved' does not. | |
| Jun 7 at 17:00 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | @PabloDescamisado The missing key is: "earn" is an active verb while "deserve" is a passive one. You might be in a state of deserving because of something you did, but "earn" definitely talks about things you did, while "deserve" is just a state. | |
| Jun 7 at 16:55 | comment | added | Pablo Descamisado | @ohshitgorillas What about «You've just deserved an award» / «He's already deserved an award» / «Have you deserved an award yet». do they sound natural / wrong / deliberate ? | |
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| Jun 7 at 16:47 | comment | added | ohshitgorillas | Yet another example could be if someone has stopped being deserving of the award, as in "You've deserved it up until this point." but even then, "You deserved it up until this point" sounds more natural. | |
| Jun 7 at 16:41 | comment | added | ohshitgorillas | Another example could be "You've deserved every award given to you so far", indicating that the state of being deserving has been going on for some time. This also implies that the deservedness is coming to an end, perhaps because the person in question is retiring. EDIT: that is, not that the deservedness is coming to an end (the person no longer deserves those awards), but "you've deserved" implies a certain finality or completion compared to "you deserve". | |
| Jun 7 at 13:54 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | @PabloDescamisado I would say it would work only in the midst of an entire passage set in the present perfect. "Over the past 10 years you've been my faithful friend. You've earned my trust. I've expressed my gratitude more than once, but you've deserved even more than I've expressed." | |
| Jun 7 at 7:52 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | I think it would hardly ever be natural, because 'deserving something' isn't an action that someone did in the past and then finished. | |
| Jun 7 at 6:44 | comment | added | Pablo Descamisado | Thank you! It is the question of the word choice here. I'll use it now. (in my language both these verbs have almost the same meaning). Could you also write a quick example of when Deserve in preset perfect would be natural? | |
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