I don’t know if it “matters”, and I’m not a prescriptivist who wants to tell others how to talk, but it’s interesting.
I don’t know if it “matters”, and I’m not a prescriptivist who wants to tell others how to talk, but it’s interesting.
To be pedantic that’s not grammar but orthography (which in English is even weirder). English is just a mutant amalgamation of Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages and man, it shows.
But have you cleaned your bedroom or did you only clean it?
If he only said “I cleaned my shoes”, they could be dirty again. Now you know the difference between present perfect and simple past. English grammar, it’s weird (but every language’s is, to be fair).
Practically reasonable, since they occupy much more space than sensibly sized cars.
Just like Werner Herzog