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Help! Present perfect or past simple?
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CILB
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Help! Present perfect or past simple?
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How would you complete this sentence?
After the boy ______ (get) hurt, the nurse ______ (put) a bandage on his arm.
Is it correct to say "After the boy has got hurt , the nurse put a bandage on his arm". Or do I have to use the past simple in both cases to express a sequence of events?
Thanks in advance!
Cecilia. |
13 May 2009
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maayyaa
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I would definitely use past simple in both gaps. As you said, it expresses the sequence of events.
After the boy got hurt the nurse put a bandage on his arm.
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13 May 2009
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MissMelissa12
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Well first of all we are talking about two actions that happened in the past, right?
So � �after � � will introduce the first event in this case: � �The boy got hurt � �. And my second even is when � �the nurse put a badage on his arm � �.
So when arranging two actions happening in the past we should use � �past perfect � � to talk about the earlier action : � � the boy got hurt � �.
For instance, your sentence should look like this:
The boy got hurt. Then the nurse put a bandage on his arm.
After the boy had got/gotten hurt, the nurse put a bandage on his arm.
I dont understand the � �present perfect � � function on this type of sentence since the actio of getting hurt was set in a moment in the past.
*** After the boy got hurt, the nurse put a bandage on his arm´´ --> sounds better just ´´simple past both´´ . I think because we have the time expression already. ***
Miss Melissa.  |
13 May 2009
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mamamima
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I absolutely agree on the use of past simple for both verbs. In any case, the second option to me would be past perfect and then simple past, rather.
regards
mamamima |
13 May 2009
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Carla Horne
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Hi Cecilia,
Just use the simple past.
After the boy got hurt, the nurse put a bandage on his arm.
I always try to do a short conjugation in my mind:
I get hurt everyday.
I got hurt yesterday.
I have gotten hurt every month.
I hope this helps.
Carla |
13 May 2009
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CILB
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Thank you so much! You are always really helpful  |
13 May 2009
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CILB
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Thank you so much! You are always really helpful |
13 May 2009
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douglas
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We Americans would say: " After the boy got hurt, the nurse put a bandage on his arm." but some "high-faluten �-know-it all" (no offense intended) might say "after the boy had gotten..." and we would just laugh and think "Okay genius, but if you say it that way you �ll never have many friends."
Douglas |
13 May 2009
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Abdelhadi
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Would you like please to define the word flauten? I �ve never heard it. Is that a slang word? Does it mean something like arrogant or someone pretending to know everything (know-it all as you stated)?
But I guess that the correct tense to be used in this sentence is the past perfect + simple past as MissMelissa12 mentioned before, So the sentence should be:
After the boy had got/gotten hurt, the nurse put a bandage on his arm
This is because we have two actions which happened in the past; one before the other. So (the past perfect + simple past) is more suitable than (the simple past + simple past). Here, I �m talking about what is correct according to grammar specifically. I can understand that sometimes some sentences may be correct grammatically; still, culturally speaking, they may have some specific connotations.
Correct me if I �m mistaken please
Thanx
Abdelhadi |
13 May 2009
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GIOVANNI
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Hi: Back home we would use after the boy had gotten hurt the nurse put a bandage on him. Pas Perfect and Simple Past. Douglas, I have a question for you. I notice in the U.S. in conversation they seem not to use the Perfect tenses as often as Canadians. Do you know anything about this? |
13 May 2009
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Zora
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Giovanni - that�s cause they aren�t as high-faluten as us Canucks! 
And Abdelhadi... "high faluten" is used when somebody thinks he �s better than others or somebody who likes to show off that he �s better than the rest of us. Someone who �s pompous or putting on airs..
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