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I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has died",...

Anonymous wrote: Goodman wrote: New2grammar wrote: Thanks, Yoong Liat! This is interesting. Does it mean if a guy walks up to me and sees the passenger next to me covered in blood and asks "What happened?", I should say "He was shot" instead of "He has been shot"? Hi New2grammar, This...

Goodman wrote: New2grammar wrote: Thanks, Yoong Liat! This is interesting. Does it mean if a guy walks up to me and sees the passenger next to me covered in blood and asks "What happened?", I should say "He was shot" instead of "He has been shot"? Hi New2grammar, This is my analogy. ...

New2grammar wrote: Thanks, Yoong Liat! This is interesting. Does it mean if a guy walks up to me and sees the passenger next to me covered in blood and asks "What happened?", I should say "He was shot" instead of "He has been shot"? Hi New2grammar, This is my analogy. The fact that...

I think the present perfect is more natural here. The idea is that films quite often engage in an activity, namely focusing on journalism. It is an on-going thing that films do. Having engaged in that activity over time, films have accomplished the following: they have examined and...

Another country heard from. 1. Mr. Pendantic has explained this extensively by providing the relevant context. 2. This is the exact analog of the corresponding present-point-of-view sentence, thus: 2a. (Now) I realize that I have had it in my pocket all along. 2b. (At that time) I realized...