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At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  Updated on: 03 Dec 2019, 05:06
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At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris needs a second, larger opera house to complement the famous Paris Opera.

(A) has decided that Paris needs
(B) decided that Paris needs
(C) has decided that Paris will need
(D) decided that Paris has a need of
(E) has decided that Paris needed
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Originally posted by anonymousvn on 28 Jun 2009, 11:53.
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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  28 Jun 2009, 12:42
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The answer is B because the word "has" doesn't have a place in the underlined part of the sentence since the author speaks of a past incident, "in a recent session".
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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  28 Jun 2009, 13:17
I think that both verbs "decide and need" should be in the same tense. Why in B, need is in the present? Please explain on this problem. I chosen B first, but later I chosen A for this reason.

OA is B
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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  18 Apr 2010, 19:39
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Present Perfect:

Action Started.............continue.....................Present.

=> Means an action started in the past and continued to present. There will be an on going operation or action.

In the recent session, a decision was taken. There is no ongoing action here. Some took the decision. Then what? anything else up to present? No. Means there is no ongoing action. So, we need to use past simple tense.

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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  23 Apr 2012, 06:21
why "Has Decided" options cancelled out vs. "Decided"?
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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  23 Apr 2012, 06:31
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why "Has Decided" options cancelled out vs. "Decided"?


See my explanation above.

Here is the exact time given "At a recent session", so we should use past simple. The decision was made on the certain date. The decision process does not continue at this moment.
It is like saying "On Monday, the French government decided ..."
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Re: At a recent session, the French government has decided that Paris need [#permalink] New post  04 Jan 2020, 12:03
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JubtaGubar wrote:
aalba005 wrote:
why "Has Decided" options cancelled out vs. "Decided"?


See my explanation above.

Here is the exact time given "At a recent session", so we should use past simple. The decision was made on the certain date. The decision process does not continue at this moment.
It is like saying "On Monday, the French government decided ..."


Although this post has been here for a very long time I am not quite agreeing with the explanation.
Present Perfect has not only the usage as described above, the present perfect is also used for actions / events that started in the past, finished at some point but still have an impact on the current present / future.
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