tom3m
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I was in Canada. What......you......(do) there?
We did this as a part of a present perfect simple/past simple exercise at school. The correct answer was 'did you do'. I would like to know why present perfect is not acceptible.
I imagine the situation when I am meeting a friend just having arrived from a trip around the world. Among other things, he is telling me that he was in Canada. Would it be possible to use 'have done' in this situation, or is this sentence strictly past?
We did this as a part of a present perfect simple/past simple exercise at school. The correct answer was 'did you do'. I would like to know why present perfect is not acceptible.
I imagine the situation when I am meeting a friend just having arrived from a trip around the world. Among other things, he is telling me that he was in Canada. Would it be possible to use 'have done' in this situation, or is this sentence strictly past?