[Grammar] Past simple or present perfect?

[svetta]

Hello. Could you help with this sentence, please? What grammar tense should be used in the following sentence:
this bread/freshly bake/this morning
There is no context. I think that it's possible to use present perfect passive or past simple passive.
Thank you so much.

 

[Rover_KE]

There has to be a context. It looks like a homework exercise to me.

 

[svetta]

There has to be a context. It looks like a homework exercise to me.

Yes. It's really a sentence from the exercise. And there is an answer with the past simple. But I think the present perfect is possiible too.

 

[Rover_KE]

So tell us your two correct versions, please.

 

[svetta]

So tell us your two correct versions, please.

This bread was freshly baked this morning. - morning is already over, it's in the past for the speaker, it's just the fact that this bread was baked.
This bread has been freshly baked this morning. - at the baker's, for example, we can ask if this bread is fresh and get an answer Look. It's still warm. It's been baked this morning.

 

[emsr2d2]

The context in your second suggestion makes no difference. "This bread is still warm. It was baked this morning" is correct. Bear in mind that it's in the passive voice. The active past simple would be "I/We baked it this morning".

 

[svetta]

The context in your second suggestion makes no difference. "This bread is still warm. It was baked this morning" is correct. Bear in mind that it's in the passive voice. The active past simple would be "I/We baked it this morning".

And if the morning is not over yet? If it's still present time for me? I can't imagine the situation but feel that the present perfect is possible too.

 

[emsr2d2]

It doesn't matter that the morning is not yet over. The bread was baked earlier this morning. The morning starts at one minute past midnight and continues until noon.

The bread was baked yesterday.
The bread was baked at 3am.
The bread was baked this morning.
The bread was baked two hours ago.
The bread was baked five minutes ago.

The time of baking and the time of speaking, in this context, make no difference.

 

[jutfrank]

The present perfect is possible, too.

 

[svetta]

It doesn't matter that the morning is not yet over. The bread was baked earlier this morning. The morning starts at one minute past midnight and continues until noon.

The bread was baked yesterday.
The bread was baked at 3am.
The bread was baked this morning.
The bread was baked two hours ago.
The bread was baked five minutes ago.

The time of baking and the time of speaking, in this context, make no difference.

It means that only past simple can be used in this sentence? And I'm not right with the present perfect?

 

[bhaisahab]

I don't find the present perfect very natural there.

 

[emsr2d2]

I don't find the present perfect very natural there.

I find it entirely unnatural.