Comments on: Easy Past Tense Verbs http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/easy-past-tense-verbs General Advice and Tips on Mandarin Chinese Learning Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/easy-past-tense-verbs/comment-page-1#comment-330 admin Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:59:19 +0000 http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/?p=142#comment-330 Hi Robin Thanks I will correct my article. Yes, I am by no means an English expert so get all our crazy grammar terms mixed up. Just more proof that Chinese is easier than English. However, we DO say "I have eaten X before" to indicate that we have had the experience of eating something in the past at least once in our lifetime. Hi Robin

Thanks I will correct my article. Yes, I am by no means an English expert so get all our crazy grammar terms mixed up. Just more proof that Chinese is easier than English.

However, we DO say “I have eaten X before” to indicate that we have had the experience of eating something in the past at least once in our lifetime.

]]> By: Robin http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/easy-past-tense-verbs/comment-page-1#comment-329 Robin Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:46:49 +0000 http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/?p=142#comment-329 Hi. Sorry to be the one to point this out, but 'I have eaten' is Present Perfect not Past Perfect, as Past Perfect is 'I had eaten'. Unfortunately, you are a little confused about the use of the present perfect too, as it is not used for events that happened a long time ago. Instead it is used for events that happened but are 1. directly resulting in an important event in the present, 2. repeated over a long time but may continue repeating in the present or future and/or 3. very recent events which have stopped within the very recent past. I know this is about Chinese grammar, not English but I was confused as to how to use the Chinese grammar because the English examples were somewhat confusing. Otherwise, thanks for the article and I appreciate the work put into it. :) Hi. Sorry to be the one to point this out, but ‘I have eaten’ is Present Perfect not Past Perfect, as Past Perfect is ‘I had eaten’. Unfortunately, you are a little confused about the use of the present perfect too, as it is not used for events that happened a long time ago. Instead it is used for events that happened but are 1. directly resulting in an important event in the present, 2. repeated over a long time but may continue repeating in the present or future and/or 3. very recent events which have stopped within the very recent past.
I know this is about Chinese grammar, not English but I was confused as to how to use the Chinese grammar because the English examples were somewhat confusing. Otherwise, thanks for the article and I appreciate the work put into it. :)

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