Timeline for When you just finished watching a movie, do you have to say "I loved it" or is "I love it" also correct?
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| Dec 5 at 7:23 | comment | added | Parrotmaster | I feel like "loved it" says more about the experience of watching the movie as you had it at the time. That can be because you love the movie, but also other factors like atmosphere, company etc. | |
| Dec 5 at 6:45 | comment | added | cfr | 'I have loved her' sounds wrong to me if you still love her. you wouldn't say 'I have done it' if you were still doing it. you could say 'I've always loved her'. | |
| Dec 3 at 19:46 | comment | added | keshlam | "I love that movie. I loved watching it, and would love to watch it again. " Again, time references. It's also possible to love it because you didn't love watching it, if you consider it well done but uncomfortable. (I can think of one song I have that relationship with.) | |
| Dec 3 at 10:37 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 3 at 10:12 | comment | added | gomadeng | Where you are is not important. If you now love some movie, just say "I love it". If you loved some movie in the past, just say "I loved it." Let me give you an example: I loved her. vs. I love her. If you loved her in the past then say "I loved her." If you love her now, just say "I love her." If you loved her in the past and still love her now, then just say "I still love her." or "I have loved her." | |
| Dec 3 at 9:58 | comment | added | Yunus | @gomadeng, thanks for the comment. So, do you mean if you are not in front of the screen watching the film at the time of speaking, you can't say "I love it". Is that right? | |
| Dec 3 at 9:47 | comment | added | gomadeng | Present tense means current situation and past tense means past situation. 'I loved it' means at the specific time in the past you loved it but we don't know if you still love it. 'I love it' means at the present moment(now) you love it but we don't know if you loved it in the past or will love it in the future. That is, past is in the past and present is in the present. | |
| Dec 3 at 7:17 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 3 at 7:17 | vote | accept | Yunus | ||
| Dec 3 at 0:33 | answer | added | Juhasz | timeline score: 16 | |
| Dec 2 at 23:38 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | I saw the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business decades ago. Ever since then, it’s been among my favorites. I love it. | |
| Dec 2 at 23:04 | history | asked | Yunus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |