To: XR7
"... Moore: You made a big mistake, America" KG9: "You've", Miss Ivy League. Not 'You'.
Back the the original premise: Yes they have, but no I've not.
To: The KG9 Kid
Maybe she viewed the action from its punctiliar aspect. Then "You" would be correct ("You did that bad thing").
18 posted on
11/12/2008 1:56:58 PM PST by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: The KG9 Kid
The columnists don’t write the headlines, the editors do that.
40 posted on
11/12/2008 2:07:58 PM PST by
soupcon
To: The KG9 Kid
a minor grammatical error is the only thing you can comment on in this brilliant article?
you got to be kidding?
52 posted on
11/12/2008 2:24:08 PM PST by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: The KG9 Kid
The KG9 Kid said:
KG9: "You've", Miss Ivy League. Not 'You'. Well,... let's see what we have here.
"You made a mistake" is a statement of a past action, so the verb form used is the past tense.
"You've made a mistake" (or without the contraction, "You have made a mistake" ) is a statement of the present state of having perfected some action in the past, so the verb form is present perfect.
It's my opinion that either form is correct and that the two forms have nearly, but not quite, identical meanings.
82 posted on
11/12/2008 3:53:39 PM PST by
William Tell
(RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
To: The KG9 Kid
Ask not for who the bell tolls, it tolls for he.
86 posted on
11/12/2008 4:22:19 PM PST by
oblomov
To: The KG9 Kid
"You've", Miss Ivy League. Not 'You'.I disagree. She used the simple past tense quite properly.
101 posted on
11/12/2008 7:09:22 PM PST by
Albion Wilde
("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." --Thomas Mann)
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