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Tenses of verbs/help
Message from angrepa posted on 20-01-2014 at 23:44:13 (D | E | F)
Hi!
in exercise 103034,
sentence 4: Could it be "has gone" instead of "went"? I chose the present perfect because of "recently"
sentence 7: I wrote "had been dispersed" . Is it wrong?
Thank you a lot for any answer to my doubts.

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Edited by lucile83 on 21-01-2014 08:40

Re: Tenses of verbs/help from gerondif, posted on 20-01-2014 at 23:59:41 (D | E)
Hello,
4) no! when you say, "I went to London in December", you describe an action, a movement, you left a place for another place.
Recently will be understood that way: He went to London recently, he left for London recently, two weeks ago.

"John has gone to London " means that he is no longer with us in this room, he is absent from this place,he is STILL in London.
"John has been to London recently" could be said because now, he is back in France with us, showing off in his wonderful London T-shirt.

7) Yes, ! The crowd was dispersing when we reached the place.
The crowd had been dispersed by the police before/when/by the time we/ reached the place.
The crowd had dispersed before/when/by the time we/ reached the place.

Re: Tenses of verbs/help from angrepa, posted on 21-01-2014 at 01:07:24 (D | E)
Thank you very much for your help.

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