Present Perfect (Unit 16)

[Beeesneees]

Neither is correct. Why have you written '10'?

I haven't seen you in an age.
I haven't seen you for ages.
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"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
Terry Pratchett

[Csaabaa]

Oh my God. I made a few mistakes in my last message.

I haven't seen you in 10 years. (It was said in the last American Dad episode.)

I would prefer say: I haven't seen you for 10 years.

[Beeesneees]

in 10 years - within a 10-year period
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"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
Terry Pratchett

[Manushak]

Hi everybody!
I understood correctly?
I was in Italy last years .
I have been in Italy (already).

[Torsten]

I was in Italy last year.
I have already been to Italy.

TOEIC listening, question-response: How much does the package weigh?

[Manushak]

Sorry,
I found one mistake in my post
Did I understand correctly?

[M.Ramzan]

practice makes man expert. don't worry

[Torsten]

[M.Ramzan]

i don't believe on the actual phrase. ''practice makes perfect.'' there is nothing perfect in this world how practice makes it perfect,therefore i said practice makes man expert not perfect.''

[Torsten]

We are here to learn English. If everyone invents their own phrases that actually don't sound English at all we probably will have difficulty understanding each other. Wouldn't you agree? What's more, if you use your own language that is based on English words with native speakers you just sound funny. Do you want to come across like this?

TOEIC listening, question-response: What's your phone number, please?

[M.Ramzan]

some quotations ,sayings proverbs,idioms or phrases cannot come across the test of time, suppose if i say the world is flat, Do you believe , i guess not at all.the same case is with this phrase. to be honest, do you think practice makes perfect.'' if so how !!!

[Torsten]

It seems you are not getting my point. Let me try to explain again. On this forum we want to learn English as it is used by native speakers. What you do is invent your own phrases that clearly are not used by native speakers. For example, 'come across the test of time' is not an English phrase. It was invented by you. No native English speaker in their right mind will ever user it. Also, the personal pronoun I is always capitalized. That's a very basic and simple rule. Why don't you follow it? Is it because you don't know it or because you want to be cool and clever? I hope this makes sense now.

TOEIC listening, question-response: Would you care for an appetizer?

[M.Ramzan]

I'm not leading you up the garden. Neither i'm cool nor clever.'' what i said that is fact not my opinion. undoubtedly we are here to learn the native speakers, i personally think language is not perfect itself,but there is always room for improvement. what you have said i do agree with you in some extent. practice makes perfect need to be rerevised .''
If my words hurt you i do sorry for that.

[Torsten]

This is not about hurting me. It's about following basic rules. For example, if you don't capitalize the pronoun I, you show that you either don't understand or simply can't follow certain rules.

TOEIC listening, question-response: Why is Martha leaving work early?

[M.Ramzan]

blush, i can understand and speak as well. so for the problem of capitalizing the pronoun, i've problem with my keyboard caplock. :)