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- Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:08 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
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- Fri Jun 27, 2014 4:43 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
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- Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:02 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
I have only just read your final reply ! Once again thank you very much for your input fluffyhamster but perhaps you misunderstood me. I never said that either of the websites indicated that the simple past should be replaced with the present perfect nor did I think that the given example was wrong....
- Mon May 26, 2014 12:10 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Gerund
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12962
Hello again ! :D
Once again thank you ever so much for taking the time to reply. You are right 'go' is an intransitive verb so swimming can't be the direct object and hence it is not the gerund. Thank you for enlightening me ! Grammar Patterns 1: Verbs can be found here :wink: http://arts-ccr-002.bham.ac.uk/ccr/patg...
- Wed May 21, 2014 8:41 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Gerund
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12962
Gerund
Hello everybody
I just wanted to confirm the following.
'I am going swimming'
Swimming is the gerund in this example and it is acting as the direct object right ?
Thanks !
I just wanted to confirm the following.
'I am going swimming'
Swimming is the gerund in this example and it is acting as the direct object right ?
Thanks !
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:11 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
Thank you ever so much for explaining further.
Thank you ever so much for explaining further. I perfectly understand what you mean now and I very much appreciate your help. Just so you know the rule and the examples that followed were from the following websites http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/present-tense/presen...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:04 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply.
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply.
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:57 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
Thank you very much once again :)
Thank you very much once again.
Have a lovely day
Have a lovely day
- Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:56 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 46217
Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
Hello everybody :) Hope you don't mind but I thought I'd post this here as well so that perhaps I finally get an answer to a question asked to many already ! If the present perfect simple is used to emphasise the present result of a past event then why is it correct to say 'Sorry I am late . I misse...
- Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:59 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
Thank you ever so much for your kind reply :)
Thank you ever so much for your kind reply :) Yes I agree with what you said. I would also say the same. As far as the use for simple present perfect goes I have more examples here which conform to this rule. 2. To emphasise the present result of a past event. I can't get in the house. I've lost my ...
- Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:54 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 62752
Present Perfect Simple - Is this an exception ?
If the present perfect simple is used to emphasise the result then why is it correct to say
'Sorry I am late. I missed the bus' and not 'Sorry I am late. I have missed the bus'
Thank you
'Sorry I am late. I missed the bus' and not 'Sorry I am late. I have missed the bus'
Thank you