tailieunhanh - The grammar of the english verb phrase part 91

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 91', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | II. Temporal adverbials and the choice between past tense and present perfect 623 I have never heard such nonsense in my life I before . I still haven t seen him. in a period up to t0 At the time I still did not want to live in London. With actualization adverbials implying a period up to t0 Am. E. often uses the past tense especially in spoken language. In colloquial Br. E. too the past tense is sometimes used with always ever and less frequently with never I already did that. Am. E. Br. E. uses I ve already done that instead. 5 I have always said he was not to be trusted. Graham has always been I always was a brilliant scientist. Have you ever seen I Did you ever see such a beauty One day he pulled me apart in front of the staff. I never felt so small in my life. I could hardly speak. www Tense choice with adverbials indicating a recent indefinite bygone time Four adverbials that indicate a recent indefinite bygone time viz. recently just this minute lately can co-occur with an indefinite present perfect. However there are cases in which the past tense can be used too. This use is investigated here for each of the four adverbials. On an indefinite interpretation the present perfect co-occurs with four adverbials that indicate a recent indefinite ByGONE time viz. recently just this minute lately. This telegram has just arrived. I have this minute heard that the deal is off. I have recently met him. There haven t been any burglaries here lately. However there are cases in which the past tense can be used too. In the next subsections we investigate this use for each of the four adverbials. 5. The British National Corpus does contain a couple of examples though in which already combines with the past tense where the present perfect would normally be used Perhaps we d better think seriously about getting you away from here after all. I ain t going said Dolly. I already told you so. Very useful advice. Shame I already got it from Cowley. 624 12. .