Confusion about using either simple past or present perfect.
In the following paragraph, the simple past has been used, instead of present perfect. Why is the present perfect not being used? When we say ‘over the past decade’, it means the time extends upto present but still present perfect was not used & I have seen many examples of present perfect being used in the internet with ‘over the last’ decade.
During the past decade, India has witnessed several economic booms and a slow slow fall in the poverty rate. Which has been the better nation for many years? In India, the seven low-income states — Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh — continue to do badly.
Why are simple past and present perfect used, not present perfect? In my opinion “present perfect” should be as Over the past ten years extends to present. Has a previous used a present perfect, or is it a previous one?
What is it like to be in the business of outsourcing something?
Rule #1: Never trust an article to be 100% grammatically and syntactically correct, wherever it might come from. People are human and by the number of articles getting published daily (both in paper and on web), mistakes are bound to appear.
Is there a definition for the Present Perfect? Since the article talks about something that has been occurring up until now ( past being the keyword for that in over the past decade ) and draws conclusions from that, would the Present Perfect be a more suited tense?
In my humble opinion, this is more a mistake than an intended use of the simple past. I’m a human too, and I could be sorry but to me the usage of the expression over the past decade makes using the simple past quite difficult.
What’s the point of being correct with them? Why did your writer use present perfect in the above comments? What’s best and worst: I’ve pick up one of your comments here, where I think you were
trying to be open-minded? Is he looking back on it as something finished and complete in itself?
I am not changed in the fact that this writer begins using a phrase suggestive of the present imperfect, and follows it with the simple past tense what is left with the simple past tense. Is it grammatically incorrect to say ‘Over the past years’ straight before the word “witnessed”.
If he were to change his “intentions” it would
cause the grammar to work any different from the grammar standards he used before.
