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Encountered is much more formal than met, but both are correct in your sentence. Ran into is not correct in your example, but run into (very informal) would work. (Ran is simple past tense. Have run is an example of the present perfect tense. You've is the contraction for You have.)

Hi NaderCool Breeze was explaining to you that the contractions for "Who is" and "Who has" are the same:(present perfect continuous)Jane has been talking to him. = Jane's been talking to him.Who has Jane been talking to? = Who's Jane been talking to?(present continuous)Jane is talking to him. =...

Hoa Thai wrote:Dear Goodman,I can see your argument. Your example is about 'time', which could be either specific (simple past) or non-specified time in the past (present perfect).However, the movie's title is ever-lasting. Could that make a little different? Do you mean we must go with #4 only...

WesternAmerican wrote:Why can't I say 'I had lived a life that's full'.Because "that's" is a contraction of "that is" not "that was". You could say "I had lived a life that was full" then X happened and life wasn't full anymore.

Hi, Yes, you're right in thinking that these phrases wouldn't usually sound natural to a native speaker. On the other hand, if two Asian people are having a conversation in English like this, and they understand each other, that's not a bad thing, is it? Ok I'll try to illustrate base on this...

I am not surprised, but my primary reaction is that none of these numbers are statistically significant. Discard Google hit numbers entirely unless they are in the thousands, and ignore any apparent differences unless they are in the 500% range, e.g. -- I haven't seen it - 220,000 I ain't seen...

Yes, without the contraction it would be "You have got questions. We have got answers." Have is used to form the present perfect indicative forms of verbs. That is, to pair the past participle of the verb with either have or has. Got is the past indicative form of the verb get and, therefore,...

The idiom is "have got" in both American and British English. It is a purely idiomatic alternate for "have" and is not much used except in the present tense. That is, "have got" is the present tense of this idiom, even though "get" is the present tense form of "to get", and the past is "got". ...