Thread: Finished adverbs with the present perfect
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Old 17-Dec-2007, 00:07
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Default Re: Finished adverbs with the present perfect
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Originally Posted by rewboss View Post
It still sounds odd, at least to my ears.
Lots of things do. That's the beauty of corpus study, Rewboss. It shows us that there actually are certain overrides to established principles. Prescriptivists called these exceptions because they couldn't explain things well enough.

But odd as it sounds, there are times in speech where there are clear overrides of the present perfect. Tony Blair's was just one of them.

"She's gone, ... yesterday" works quite well, in certain circumstances.

Hasn't anyone got a Swan?
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