English Language Learners Asked by Arthur Robinson on December 22, 2021
Can I use the Present Perfect SIMPLE with State Verbs like “Thought” and “Know”? Like, for example, “I’ve thought you were my friend” and “I’ve known she was nice.” Can I use it? If I can’t, why?
I would not use these sentences as they are, but I might use that construction in a longer sentence:
I cannot clearly say why, but for these verbs this tense demands a specification of time: either a duration (continuing into the present), as in my first example, or a set of discrete moments, as in my others.
Answered by Anton Sherwood on December 22, 2021
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