He has heard of the name many times

[kadioguy]

[From the Mandarin Daily News]

(In the learning English section)
Let's Go to the Art Museum
Ernie found that there was going to be an exhibition of Andy Warhol in the art museum. He has heard of the name many times, but he has never seen any of his works in person. Therefore, he decided to ask his friends to go to the museum with him on the weekend.

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It looks weird to me to have both past form and present form in the description. I suppose that there should be just one form of them there. That is, either one of the following:

a. [the past form version]
Ernie found that there was going to be an exhibition of Andy Warhol in the art museum. He had heard of the name many times, but he had never seen any of his works in person. Therefore, he decided to ask his friends to go to the museum with him on the weekend.

b. [the present form version]
Ernie finds that there is going to be an exhibition of Andy Warhol in the art museum. He has heard of the name many times, but he has never seen any of his works in person. Therefore, he decides to ask his friends to go to the museum with him on the weekend.

What do you think?

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think you should analyse this particular text.

 

[kadioguy]

I don't think you should analyse this particular text.

Could you please tell me why?

 

[5jj]

Few texts prepared for elementary-level learners are completely natural, even when the texts have been prepared by native speakers. We can more usefully spend our time in other ways.

 

[Tarheel]

The choice of words is a bit odd. For example, I would say, "Ernie heard that there was going to be an Andy Warhol exhibit at the art museum." Then I might say, "He had heard of him and wanted to go see the exhibit."

I wouldn't say "He had heard of that name, but I might say "He had heard that name." (No "of".)

 

[Tarheel]

One more thing. Saying somebody decided to do something doesn't mean he did it. If he did it just say so. If not say why he didn't do it.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you want to use "of", you need to use a pronoun instead of "the name".

He'd heard of him but ...