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nhatminh0904
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Please tell me what is wrong: The Chinese have invented printing. a.the b.Chinese c.have d.printing Thanks. |
11 May 2012
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yanogator
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If it had just happened recently, the sentence would be fine. However, it happened a few years ago, so "have" is wrong. This is a simple past situation, so it should be "The Chinese invented printing". Bruce |
11 May 2012
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ohermann
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In my humble opinion, "c) have" is nonsense there. The sentence speaks about the past event - a long time ago (not mentioned here) happened this - printing was invented in China. And who invented it? The Chinese.
And as Bruce said (he answered few seconds earlier  ) only past tense makes sense here.
Bruce - this is my message 4U :  |
11 May 2012
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cunliffe
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Yep - �have � needs to go. |
12 May 2012
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