Use the present perfect, but don't use "made"; "carried out" or "done" would be better.Hello!
If I'm presenting a project and say "we made an analysis, here are the results". Is that correct? Would it be better to say "we've made"?
Thank you
W
HenryI'm sorry to insist...
Could you explain to me why the present perfect is necessary even though our analysis is finished? You can use the present perfect if the action has been completed recently. It isn't necessary, but IMO it's more elegant.
Can we say "products' quality" instead of "product's quality"?
You can if you're talking about more than one product.
Thank you
W
That's a valid point, one could use the present perfect, or the past perfect (depending on the context), but it's not really necessary.What about this ?;
...our sales have decreased because of our product's quality.
Without the present perfect it sounds to me that the decrease happened in a singular point in time not during a period.
Thanks for your replies in advance.
The possesive form of product is product's.
How else (in which tense) would you write the sentence?
You could write this: "We carried out an analysis and found that our sales had decreased because of the quality of our products."In the past simple....?