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18 Oct 2020, 07:00
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One of the Manhattan SC Guide's problem sets (on verb tenses) corrects the following sentence:
The local government HAS BUILT the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.
to The local government BUILT the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.
However, inside the very same chapter in the very same guide, it says that one of the uses of the present perfect tense is to denote instances when an action is over, but its effect is still relevant. It also demonstrates this with the following sentence: The child HAS DRAWN a square in the sand.
Applying the same reasoning in the actual question, if one considers that despite the completion of the main action (of building the school), its effect is still relevant (the new school still stands), why is the original statement incorrect?
The local government HAS BUILT the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.
to The local government BUILT the school that was destroyed by the earthquake.
However, inside the very same chapter in the very same guide, it says that one of the uses of the present perfect tense is to denote instances when an action is over, but its effect is still relevant. It also demonstrates this with the following sentence: The child HAS DRAWN a square in the sand.
Applying the same reasoning in the actual question, if one considers that despite the completion of the main action (of building the school), its effect is still relevant (the new school still stands), why is the original statement incorrect?
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18 Oct 2020, 07:32
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The school that was built by the local government was already destroyed by the earthquake, thats why the use of the past tense. You also mentioned the new school -considering that is the case, it is different from the old school destroyed by the earthquake.
You may also use past perfect tensed indicating that the school was built first before being destroyed by the earthquake.
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You may also use past perfect tensed indicating that the school was built first before being destroyed by the earthquake.
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18 Oct 2020, 09:29
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The effect of the action is relevant - in the sentence, the effect of the action is the crux of the sentence. In the sentence - the local government has built the school that was destroyed in the earthquake - the crux of the sentence is the earthquake; in the second sentence - the child has drawn a square in the sand, the crux of the sentence is the action.
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