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Funny Lebowski
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I'm only on C1 at the moment. Damn it's easy. D:
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Constance Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:32 am |
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| I need a full explanation on 'has/have' and 'had' please. They seemed to confuse me. :| |
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Sobchak Lebowski
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:08 am |
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Has is only used for third person singular, have for all the rest
So
我有 - I have
你有/你們有 - You have
我們有 - We have
她們有 - They have
他有 - He has
她有 - She has
Had is past tense and often refers to something that you no longer have
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Constance Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:09 am |
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I knew that, and no Chinese explanations please, I can't even understand them. (lol, ironic xD)
I want to know the difference in terms of verb, as in:
"He had/has kissed my mother"
"Leroy had/has not kissed his wife"
"I have/had been in the orphanage since 1945" |
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Yummytummy Burritos
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:25 am |
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Ewwww English :P
I'm not completely sure about this but using "has -ed" I think is the imperfect past tense, and so implies that the action was 'ongoing', whereas using "had -ed" is the past perfect tense and implies the action was a 'one off' type thing, and has stopped.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
That explains it pretty well :P
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Constance Anderson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:56 pm |
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Cool, thanks!  |
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Bjorn Harlan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:14 pm |
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I have no idea what nouns, verbs and whatnot are. I know they exist but I couldn't tell anyone which is which.
Somehow I have A grades in English language. |
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Ninjabear Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:13 pm |
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Well done, I guess  |
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Knyh Risotto
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:02 pm |
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| Bjorn Harlan wrote: |
I have no idea what nouns, verbs and whatnot are. I know they exist but I couldn't tell anyone which is which.
Somehow I have A grades in English language. |
I did exactly the same thing.
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Roxie Bauer
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:23 pm |
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| Bjorn Harlan wrote: |
I have no idea what nouns, verbs and whatnot are. I know they exist but I couldn't tell anyone which is which.
Somehow I have A grades in English language. |
A noun is a something - A cold, a chair, a dog, a bosom
A verb is a doing word - jump, climb, duck, grope
An adjective is a describing word - blue, smelly, stupid, bouncy |
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Leroy Simpson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:10 pm |
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Need help with homework? Ask Google
Need help with French? Ask Ninjabear
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Ninjabear Simpson
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Haha  . We can talk about math too here. Sometimes, Google gives answers without real explanations. |
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Hank Calothycos
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:00 pm |
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| Leroy Simpson wrote: |
Need help with homework? Ask Google
Need help with French? Ask Ninjabear |
NEVER GOOGLE TRANSLATIONS. EVER. JUST DON'T.
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Ninjabear Simpson
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:38 pm |
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| Wordreference is good for translations. |
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Knyh Risotto
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:40 pm |
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Google translate is good for single words but don't dare use it for whole sentences/paragraphs.
EXAMPLE;(guess where it's from!)
| this should replace lorem ipsum wrote: |
| La nuit dernière, j'ai eu l'un des rêves les plus réalistes que j'ai jamais eu. Pas un lucide, mais wow! Lorsque je me suis réveillé (40 minutes avant mon téléphone était censé me réveiller), j'ai tout de suite il a examiné dans ma tête pour que je ne l'oublierai pas. Et en faisant cela, je me suis endormi à nouveau! Et j'ai eu le même rêve une autre fois! Mais avec une «scène» qui n'était pas là la première fois. Et dans cette scène, j'ai vu les verrues! |
(actually thats fairly close but it's still wrong)
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