{"id":30,"date":"2013-12-12T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2013\/12\/12\/english-grammarwriting-use-of-present-perfect-as-opposed-to-past-tense\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:00:00","slug":"english-grammarwriting-use-of-present-perfect-as-opposed-to-past-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2013\/12\/12\/english-grammarwriting-use-of-present-perfect-as-opposed-to-past-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"English grammar\/writing: use of &#8220;present perfect&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;past tense&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#German\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#German<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#English\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#English<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Present_perfect\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Present_perfect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 . The choice of <b>present perfect<\/b> or <b>past tense<\/b> depends on the frame of reference (period or point in time) in which the event is conceived as occurring. \u2026 . If the frame of reference extends to the present time, the <b>present perfect<\/b> is used. \u2026 . If the frame of reference is a time in the past, or a period which ended in the past, the <b>past tense<\/b> is used instead. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The use of <b>present perfect<\/b>\u00a0resp. <b>past tense<\/b>\u00a0is quite different (as described above [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#German\">link<\/a>]), and German native speakers confuse their use in English a lot; by my experience they rather resist accepting the difference and applying them properly in English. (This is rather annoying.)\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#German https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Present_perfect#English https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uses_of_English_verb_forms#Present_perfect \u2026 . The choice of present perfect or past tense depends on the frame of reference (period or point in time) in which the event is conceived as occurring. \u2026 . If the frame of reference extends to the present time, the present perfect is used. \u2026 . If the frame of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[877],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annoyances"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}