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Present perfect vs. simple past #16 (permalink) Wed Jun 14, 2006 18:29 pm   Present perfect vs. simple past
 

only to know how an america person would have said it.....this is my last question
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Present perfect vs simple past #17 (permalink) Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:29 am   Present perfect vs simple past
 

how would you have said it?
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Present perfect vs simple past #18 (permalink) Thu Jun 15, 2006 20:49 pm   Present perfect vs simple past
 

Hi "Harry"

OK, one last question Wink

I think for the "public defender" sentence, you'd probably be most likely to hear "The court has appointed me your public defender." Even in American English.

For me that's a sentence where the only thing that's important is that it happened. And when it happened is irrelevant.

But, as I said, in American English, I also wouldn't be surprised to hear the simple past tense.

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Present perfect vs simple past #19 (permalink) Mon Dec 22, 2008 0:41 am   Present perfect vs simple past
 

Guest, Amy has already answered that question for you.........Here, I am using my response to your thread to graphically show what she has been telling you all along and which you could resume as follows:
a.- Initiates a conversation (in Amy`s way of using present perfect tense). From there on she would use simple present.
b.-Perfect present tense brings a past ocurrence to a "recent past" as oppose to simple present which does not necesarily reflects that
idea.

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present vs past #20 (permalink) Thu Jul 09, 2009 21:00 pm   present vs past
 

what is diff between present perfect tense and simple past tense?
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present vs past #21 (permalink) Thu Jul 09, 2009 23:37 pm   present vs past
 

Simple past states an action that occurred in the past, is completed and remains isolated in the past. Present perfect states an action that occurred in the past and has some relevance to the current situation or continues to occur up to the present.
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present perfect and past simple #22 (permalink) Fri Aug 14, 2009 19:14 pm   present perfect and past simple
 

I've been learn english for years, but i always make confusions between the present perfect and the past simple. Please I need details on these two tenses
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present perfect and past simple #23 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:21 am   present perfect and past simple
 

Use past simple for a simple statement of something that happened in the past and is now finished. Use present perfect for something that happened in the past and is still happening or just recently happened, or is otherwise closely related to the present situation.
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