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 #2 (permalink) Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:10 am Difference between Simple past and Present perfect |
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| Shaik wrote: |
Dear All,
Please, can anyone explain me about simple past and present perfect and how to make difference between these two tenses.
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Hello, Shaik,
I try to expain you the difference between these two tenses.
The Simple Past is used to talk about an action or a situation or an event that happens in the past and is completely finished in the past and dated.
The Present Perfect it's used for an event that take place in the past but is still in progress in the present or have an effect on the present.
I give you an example :
I have eaten all the cake. (It is one action in the past;and the result is there is no more cake, so Present Perfect).
Another example more clear I think:
I lived in France for ten years. (Simple Past, action finished because now I live in another country, England for example).
I have lived in France for ten years. (Present Perfect tense, action beginning in the past but have an effect in the present, I'm still living in France).
I hope it's now clear.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:48 am Difference between Simple past and Present perfect |
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Hi
Thanks for the reply,
could you explain me, about below two sentences.
I ete all the cake - Simple Past (completed action).
I have eaten all the cake - Present Perfect(completed action).
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Shaik
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:58 am Difference between Simple past and Present perfect |
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| Shaik wrote: |
Hi
Thanks for the reply,
could you explain me, about below two sentences.
I ete all the cake - Simple Past (completed action).
I have eaten all the cake - Present Perfect(completed action).
Thanks. |
I ate all the cake.
In both case the cake is your stomack but, in Simple Past tense the writer of sentence don't want to show a difference between the past and the present.
With the Present Perfect tense the writter wants to show us the result of the action.(to insist of the fact-there is no more cake).
Example:
You are speaking to someone in your flat, example your girlfriend, if you use the Present Perfect tense you explain to this person that you have eaten all the cake, and the conclusion for your girlfriend in her mind, she cannot eat no more cake now.
The Present Perfect tense is used to show a connection between the past and the present, about a experience of live, a change or new situation, or a continuing situation between past and presen.
The Simple Past it's more easy, you eat the cake, but you don't want to show the result or for you is it not important.
But I think you need to keep in your mind, that there is a connection between the two times.
The Present Perfect is more used in England than in America.
For me, it's a like difficult too, because I'm French.
But there some little words little since or ago, who help you to put the Present Perfect or the Simple past.
Is it much clear now?
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:15 am Difference between Simple past and Present perfect |
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Hi,
Yaa, my doubt was cleared.Thanks a lot for your explanation. |
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Shaik
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Oct 23, 2009 17:56 pm Difference between Simple past and Present perfect |
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i have cooked nice food
ten years back i remember one day i cooked nice food |
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