In Numbers^x, Present perfect^x

No. It does not say that most teenagers have attempted a diet. It is, in fact, restricting the discussion to only certain teenagers. If the teenager has not attempted a diet, then this sentence is not about him. Perhaps most teenagers have not attempted a diet. This sentence says...

1. It's six weeks since I have recieved a message.2. It's six years since I have recieved that message.Number two sounds wrong to me as a non-native speaker because of the use of "that". How does it sound to a native speaker?

Hi MarvinI made my comment about the present perfect because I think it would be far more likely for someone speaking AmE to use the simple past tense (I broke a/my tooth or I broke one of my teeth), and because I felt quite sure that the simple past tense is what I'd use most often in a sentence...

Hello Goodman, You are really THE BRAVE ONE! – Thank you for sharing your words. Without yours, I thought maybe I trespassed some secret ground or people might have felt the answer is so obvious not worth spending more time for a further discussion. The reason I explore this...

CalifJim wrote: I hate prepositions.That's so sad, because they speak so highly of you. LOL, what do you mean? Prepositions speak highly of me? Well, they sometimes/often give me trouble, but not very often, I have to say. So I don't really hate prepositions, after all. At least not as...

Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so just use Simple Past...

Clive wrote: Hi, Wondering which one is actually correct: 1) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you have stated earlier. 2) We have checked that the document number is _____ as you stated earlier. Use #2. The 'earlier' makes it a simple statement of a past fact, so just...

Hi again, You stated the document number earlier. You had stated the document number earlier. I don't think there is any difference in meaning between those two. The only difference is that the first one is simple past tense, and the other is past perfect tense... There's a lot of...

BeginStudent wrote:The answers from n2g 100% correct ? if yes i have question in number two sentence : -When have they told you? - why did you changed it to present prefect continuous ? Hi MosheYes, all of New2grammar's answers are 100% correct.New2grammar correctly used the simple past...

Hi, is 1,345,777,235,000 a big or a high number?Is 0.5 a small or a low number?Think of a big/high/small/low/etc. number...I don't know what adjectives I can use with numbers. Could somebody give me some advice? I usually find myself speaking of big/large and small numbers. High and low sound...