"I have heard this yesterday."

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I don’t know why a British linguist uses the Present Perfect with the time word- yesterday. Am I totally wrong to say that "Please teacher, I have heard this yesterday from a native speaker of English," is grammatical, please?

 

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I don’t know why a British linguist uses the Present Perfect with the time word- yesterday. Am I totally wrong to say that "Please teacher, I have heard this yesterday from a native speaker of English," is grammatical, please?

That's a classically wrong use of the present perfect and, yes, you would be totally wrong to say that it was grammatical.
 

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I don’t know why a British linguist uses the Present Perfect with the time word- yesterday

Can you let us know who the British linguist is, and what he said or wrote?
 

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Can you let us know who the British linguist is, and what he said or wrote?

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Yes, I can. I am happy to let you know. Therefore, please, 5jj, I want to make sure that my transcription was correct. It is at 1:05. Click here, please.


 

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David Crystal was quoting a non-native learner when he used those words. He would almost certainly not use the words in his own speech, and he would not claim that they were correct.
 
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If he did, it would be one of those slips we make when speaking.
 
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