You people betrayed me or You people have betrayed me
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They are both possible.
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How do you want to use them?
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Well I watched a show where a FBI agent meets with a disgruntled agent, the said agent says to him: "I gave you everything I had and you people betrayed me."
I was wondering why it wasn`t ÿou people have betrayed me"
I was wondering why it wasn`t ÿou people have betrayed me"
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It wasn't necessary to use the present perfect.
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No, it wouldn't be wrong.
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In this case, it's probably simple parallelism. "I did this, and [in return] you did that." Not, "I did this, and you have done that."I need more explanations on why that is the case.
Thank you very much!!!!))
Put it down to style in this case.
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