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Help me !About the difference between present perfect and simple past.
Look at the picuture I took .(That's a battle scene from Pokemon by the way)
The situation is that the opposing pokemon used a move that makes my pokemon's defence fall and this is a question.
I think they should have used 'have fallen' not 'fell' because its defence is lower than it was.
I just want to know what native speakers of english think.
Help me !About the difference between present perfect and simple past.
Look at the picuture I took .(That's a battle scene from Pokemon by the way)
The situation is that the opposing pokemon used a move that makes my pokemon's defence fall and this is a question.
I think they should have used 'have fallen' not 'fell' because its defence is lower than it was.
I just want to know what native speakers of english think.
Look at the picuture I took .(That's a battle scene from Pokemon by the way)
The situation is that the opposing pokemon used a move that makes my pokemon's defence fall and this is a question.
I think they should have used 'have fallen' not 'fell' because its defence is lower than it was.
I just want to know what native speakers of english think.
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The context of this sentence is correct because it is set in "present" time. "Wartortle's Attack have harshly fallen" does make sense but only if you had stated that it happened in the "past" not the "present" time. :)
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So, is it possible to say "Wartortle's Attack falls"?
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@nabohashi It doesn't really make sense. That's because of it's gramatically incorrect lol either it's "is falling" "was falling" "had fell" etc. But when you are explaining an event in the "present" that had just happened in the "past" it makes sense to use "fell". If this event had happened in the far distant past, then the context changes "Wartortle's Attack had harshly fallen". lol hope that helps. English is hard :(
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