By Present perfect, Malta

Interesting. I don't find the present perfect/simple past alternation in the original dialogue strange. Does this also sound odd to anyone? "MrQ! I haven't seen you for ages! Have you been away?""Yes, we went to Malta for a few days. We only got back last night." MrP

Hello Mowgli Mowgli wrote: I would prefer past simple "Where were you?" because B isn´t abroad or away any more, they couldn´t have this conversation otherwise.To me, "I went to Malta for a 3 week holiday" sounds natural as the answer. I interpret A might ask "Where have you been?" because A...

Hello, I have these sentences in the textbook Enterprise 3, Workbook, p. 16. A: I haven´t seen you for ages.! Where have you been? B: I went to Malta for a three week holiday. This says the Answer key. However, I would prefer past simple in the sentence "Where have you been?", so I would...

Hi Manikandan, The Perfect Tense is a very large topic, though I'll try to explain some of the basic rules to you about the Present Perfect. (I did the Past Perfect in a recent post) The Perfect tense consists of HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE and it is used in the following cases: 1. An action that...