About tenses

[riverkid]

[QUOTE=Deepurple;320210]

Not completely, Dee, because the present perfect is also used to make past actions/events seem important/current to now.

Here's an example of this type of present perfect which occasionally overrides the strong tendency to use past time adverbial adjuncts with the present perfect.

[Note the part in red.]


Riverkid, just out of curiosity. May I ask what the asterisks do in some of the words above?

I'd say that they appeared because of formatting differences, Dee.

[Raymott]

By the way, I have news for you, Raymott, that Brisbane is really a very nice place to live.

Well, that's not really news to me, but I'm glad that you enjoyed your stay.