«Humanity has created many different inventions, like, printing press, telephone, telegraph, radio, television and other. Still, we cannot ask sombody: Who has invented the phone? - because it's grammatically incorrect. We have to use past simple tense here, because this is not a new invention.» / Lingvo Live

Майя Ронзинаsolicitou a tradução 3 года назад

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Humanity has created many different inventions, like, printing press, telephone, telegraph, radio, television and other. Still, we cannot ask sombody: Who has invented the phone? - because it's grammatically incorrect. We have to use past simple tense here, because this is not a new invention.

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Mankind has invented many different things like the printing press, the telephone, the telegraph, the radio, and television, among others. Yet we can’t ask, “Who has invented the phone?” because that’d be grammatically incorrect. We have to use the simple past here since it’s not a new invention.
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Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário 3 года назад

И в чем проблема?

Майя Ронзинаadicionou o comentário 3 года назад

Uly answered just my question. I wanted to make sure I understand the subtle differences of using Present Perfect and Past Simple correctly.

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