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simple past or present perfect?
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oiseau bleu
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simple past or present perfect?
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Hi could you please help me. which tense should be used in this sentence: I left school when I was
eighteen and joined a five star Chinese restaurant as a kitchen helper. The
chef ( has taught / taught) me how to cook simple Chinese
dishes |
17 Dec 2021
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yanogator
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Hi again. First, please remove the second appearance of this question, so it doesn�t take up room on the forum. Actually, both tenses are grammatically correct, but the simple past works better, because the whole narrative is at a specific time in the past. You would use the present perfect if you were still at that restaurant, and the chef has been teaching you from then until now. Bruce |
17 Dec 2021
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