It has been a while
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The first, because 'we have met' refers to the present meeting. For example 'We have met today to discuss the rail strike.'
But a lot of speakers just see one perfect and have a kneejerk reaction that makes them carry on with the perfect willy-nilly. So I expect some users would (wrongly, in my view) regard your second sentence as acceptable. ;-)
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But a lot of speakers just see one perfect and have a kneejerk reaction that makes them carry on with the perfect willy-nilly. So I expect some users would (wrongly, in my view) regard your second sentence as acceptable. ;-)
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A reflex - an action that takes place, regardless of whether you want it to, when something triggers it.What is a kneejerk?
As this article says - Patellar reflex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 'The term began to be used figuratively from the early 20th century onwards'.
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You've probably have noticed that I used it as an adjective qualifying the noun 'reaction' and the American source mentioned in that Wikipedia used it as a noun. I don't think it is (yet!) widely used in Br English as a noun. ;-) (Always pleased to feed a fellow logoholic's craving! [And don't bother looking that up, because - I think - I just made it up.)
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