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simplifyyourteaching
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Question concerning language
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Hi to all native speakers!
I have a question: which question is correct - my students wrote a funny Christmas skitch and they used the question:
a macho asked an angel:
Hey baby, did you fall from heaven?
or
Hey baby, have you fallen from heaven?
or is there another way to express this sentence?
Thanks for your help. I am not sure about it.
Yours, simplifyyourteaching
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20 Dec 2009
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refis24
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Hi, as a native speaker I would probably use
Hey baby, have you fallen out of heaven?
I hope this helps
Kind regards
Refis24 |
20 Dec 2009
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julianbr
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hi Simply .. in the UK they �d normally say �have you fallen � and in the US �did you fall � ..
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20 Dec 2009
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Malvine
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Yes, I agree with julian. |
21 Dec 2009
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libertybelle
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Refis -
But in the song Pennies from heaven
they sing:
Every time it rains, it rains, pennies from heaven, not pennies out of heaven.
There is also an expression - heaven sent.
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21 Dec 2009
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debbie6
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hey baby, did you fall from heaven?
has been used on me...by "yucky"guys
merry christmas |
21 Dec 2009
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simplifyyourteaching
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Thank you for your answers! This helps.
A very merry Christmas to everyone!!!! |
21 Dec 2009
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darryl_cameron
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They are both fine, just different tense.
So use depends on your intended meaning!!!
Did you fall from heaven?
Talks about one event in the past at a specific time.
Simple past
Whereas
Have you fallen from heaven?
Talks about an event in the past up to the present.
In the latter it �s more of a generalization. In the first case it �s focused on the act itself of falling from heaven.
Is that better or more confusing?  |
21 Dec 2009
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