By Dates, Present perfect

Hi, CliveIt's high time you learnt Polish. But seriously, my English isn't very good so it was easier for me to write it in Polish.Generally it can be said that:If you give the date you use Past SimpleIf things happened in the past but you don't know exactly when or it doesn't make any difference...

Spocik wrote: The present perfect is used when the time is not specific: I have seen that movie already. (We don't know when.) Sam sobie odpowiedziales. Gdy podaje się dokladna date - stosujemy czas przeszly prosty (Past simple).Jesli zdarzenie nastapilo w przeszlosci, ale nie wiadomo dokladnie...

<And when exactly is "have" supposed to have been "purely possessive"? We can find abstract usage of "have" in OE; and the use of "have" in the present perfect was well established by ME. > According to most scholars*, in OE, general use of have had the meaning of pure possession, with...

Welkins2139 wrote: Marius Hancu wrote: Welkins2139 wrote:According to Michael Swan, we use a simple present perfect tense in sentences like that. Could you give some of Swan's examples? This is the first time that I've heard her sing. Page 424. Indeed, it is there, in the past time (5):...

Marius Hancu wrote: Welkins2139 wrote:According to Michael Swan, we use a simple present perfect tense in sentences like that.Could you give some of Swan's examples? This is the first time that I've heard her sing. Page 424.

Hi Marius Hancu My reply was in response to Kooyeen's query below. The second question asks 'What would be the difference if I wrote "has run" and "have met" in the above sentences?' The last two sentences of mine answer that question. This is why those sentences are in the past and present...

Kooyeen wrote: I was told to use the present or past perfect in those situations, but I often find the present continuous (even in newspapers). Kim O'Donnel: This is the first time I'm hearing a negative report. He is surprised. And he says that hearing reports is happening frequently in his...

Welkins2139 wrote:According to Michael Swan, we use a simple present perfect tense in sentences like that. Could you give some of Swan's examples?

According to Michael Swan, we use a simple present perfect tense in sentences like that.

I was told if I use present perfect tense, then the date should not be attached in the end. You were told correctly. The meaning we intend to convey when we use the present perfect tense with an action verb like "send" is that the action described happened at some unspecified time in...