No… Both “I saw him this morning” and “I have seen him this morning” can be used when it is 11am. The difference is: “I saw him this morning” - 我今早見過佢 Maybe the other person is asking “why is he not at the desk?” - this could happen at 11am, but the other person is saying 但係我今早見過佢喎 （maybe at 9am) - “見過” is the key “I have seen him this morning” - 我已經見過佢 The other person could be asking, “did you check with your manager about this issue?” So the answer is “I have (already) seen him this morning. “ the key is something already done. “已經” is the key. So in both cases, the key is not the time but is the intention / context.
When you say "I saw him this morning", it is implied that morning had passed. So it would be incorrect to say this at 11 am. If it is still in the morning, the more appropriate way to say is "I have seen him this morning", or "I saw him earlier", rather than "I saw him this morning". When you say "I have seen him this morning", it generally means that this morning had not passed. There is a distinction between these phases to differentiate the time relative to when the event took place.
@@mrslcom maybe due to difference in locale, for me in Toronto Canada, it is perfectly fine to say “I saw him this morning” at 11am. It is so often in our conversation we have something like (at 11am meeting) “why is John not here yet? Is he off today?” I could say, “don’t know, but he was in my meeting this morning at 9”.
@@SG2_channel Yes sure, in normal everyday conversation no one is going to fault you for making a minor technical error. Spoken language is never meant to be absolutely perfect. However, between the two phases there is a subtle difference as Fanny had pointed out. Saying “I saw him this morning” while you’re still in the morning will actually sound a bit odd, as “this morning” is redundant and there’s no need to refer to the current time period if you’re already in it. Hope this makes sense.
Hi Tiffany, my name is rose, I live in Dallas Texas. Your English course is very attractive to me , you teach grammar very clearly , if you speak slowly, it's better.Thank you !
Here are some tips for learners. The most common tenses that people use every day are: Present tense. It applies to things that happens or takes place as a routine or habit. Example: He takes the bus to work everyday. I usually take my dog for a walk after dinner. We can also use present tense to describe something: Her smile brightens up the room. Second most used tense is past tense which is applied / used in events that happened in the past. Example: I went to Disney World in Florida last year. I had a lot of fun. I ran into John at the Starbucks with his new girlfriend last weekend. I wanted to go shopping for a new pair of tennis shoes yesterday, but I felt asleep. All the actions took place in the past. Present Perfect is the third type of tense that we use when we talk about thing or events that happened in the past with known or unknown time and that event is still true or continuing, such as: I have known Paul for many year. (You met John in the past and you are still friends with him) I have known Paul since high school. Never thought I would meet him again as my neighbor.( The friendship started when you and John were in high school and you were surprised to see him again as your neighbor) I have studied English for 15 years ( past -----to present) I have saved enough money to start a small business. (no specified time in the past, but the saving was ongoing up to the present. Past perfect tense is occasionally used to describe 2 past events that happened with one preceding the other. Example: I had considered leaving London six month ago, but Jennifer changed my mind. Note, the 1st action verb is "had considered", not "leaving" which is a noun phrase, and the 2nd action verb is "changed". This is not to confuse the learners, but there is also future perfect tense which is rarely used except in contrasting context; such as: By the time Michael's flight lands in London, the police will have realized the crime trails Michael has left behind.
“I have seen him this morning.” can be better explained by the reason why you are saying this. For example, “Is Peter absent today?” “I have seen him this morning.” meaning he should be present; can be used in either 11am or 4pm. Present Perfect Tense is used because it is related to the context, instead of purely looking at time.
For those who are learning on "ESL" level, just remember one thing regarding when to use present perfect. Infinite time from past to present, do not include any time marker in the context, like, ago, last year, or last week and so on. Wrong example: I have shared an apartment with John six months ago. Correct example: I have shared an apartment with John since January. ( or for a long time) PP never associates to past time. " I have seen this movie many times" Unknown past to present. " I have never been to London before" " I have been studying English since I was 12 years old". Notice this is in PP continuous tense because it emphasized the fact that I am still continuously learning as I speak, and this learning process started when I was 12. Technically, " I have seen him this morning" is against the principle of grammar because of the past time marker being used in a PP condition, and therefore should be avoided.
Don't u think you guys are making learning English a bit complicated? Just say 'did you see him?' ' Did u eat yet?' Btw, I don't think it's normal to say 'he was seen by me' :)
我覺得除了 time 和 aspect 之外，用唔同的 tense 有“期許” 或者其他作用: e. g. 1) Did you see the movie? 只是好奇對方有沒有看，但 2）Have you seen the movie? 是覺得對方應該會看，而提問只是想知道對方已經看了沒有，暗示著看是遲早的問題。
I had similar difficulty using present participle for many years until a few years ago. My understanding about the difference between past tense and past participle is this. Past is as you said something that happened in the past and it is usually associated with a time (like your example in the morning). Present participle, however, refers more to a state of one's activity - usually a binary one. We understand this more when you try to compare present participle and past participle.
had had = 已经 （描述早前，现在 没什么 关系了） （I had had a bad impression of him before I met him, but soon after we talked to each other, we became friend.） （I had had enough of my noisy neighbour, so I decided to move out.） 强调：早就已经 have had = 已经 （现在 还有 关系） （I have had a busy weekend, I am exhausted.） （I have had enough to eat, I can't eat anymore.） （I have had many experience of teaching English.） 强调：已经 had = 曾经有 / 曾经做过... （I had a noisy neighbour who was so annoying.） （"You had an accident, don't you remember?" he reminded her.） （When my father was sick last year, I had to go back to Malaysia.） 用在：描述早前 I hope it helps. ^^
Here is my answer to your question. Unless you are writing a chronological narrative, in everyday usage, past perfect can be substituted with just past tense in many situations. Following traditional grammar, we use past perfect to describe two or more past events so that the order of the events is clear. For instance, I had lived in London for 5 years before I moved to Liverpool where I met my wife. Here, I have two events in this context, "lived in London" and "met my wife". In simple conversation since we have a conjunction " before", we are sure that there is no confusion which event happened first, we can simply use past tense instead. Also, I 'd like to point out, when people engage in conversation, the apostrophe d (for had) is often not detectable so you may hear just past tense. Just remember this rule. When you are describing two past events, past perfect by grammar rule should be used. In conversation especially when you have conjunctions like, before, after, and when etc, you can use past tense alternatively instead.
I know what “I am going to Macau” means but there are other situations I am confused. Some very complicated long sentences are very confusing. Sometimes, it takes time to understand what “he/she/it/they” refers to. I am not sure if there are grammar books to show how to make such long complicated sentences. I don’t know if it is good to study grammar in general or just learn from natives. It is hard to know I speak incorrectly because nobody is going to tell me as long as they know what I mean. I am not sure how others improve their English after school.
Tiffy 可否教吓 how to answer a negative statement correctly eg. 老師說： You haven’t done your homework. D 同學都答yes. Yes 到 亂晒 搞到 老師問 yes you have done then give me the work. 然後他們又答 no ….
Really, moi assui. But I think the (added) difficulty of French is very much due to its conjugations than its grammar. As far as grammar is concerned, I think both are pretty much the same (easy/difficult). My personal experience only.
多謝老師解答多年既文法困惑🙏🏻
希望老師繼續拍攝基本文法
慢慢可以循序漸進學習英文🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
多謝哂！你更加了解我們本地人對 tenses的誤解！好過一些老外網站只是講解tenses 。🙏🙏👍👍👍
我想講，你呢段片一定幫到好多人。
我讀完書先真係叫開始學英文，有好多嘢之前老師都冇解釋過。特別係第九點，participle 可以將句子變得冇咁悶，係好抵學
No… Both “I saw him this morning” and “I have seen him this morning” can be used when it is 11am.
The difference is:
“I saw him this morning” - 我今早見過佢
Maybe the other person is asking “why is he not at the desk?” - this could happen at 11am, but the other person is saying 但係我今早見過佢喎 （maybe at 9am) - “見過” is the key
“I have seen him this morning” - 我已經見過佢
The other person could be asking, “did you check with your manager about this issue?” So the answer is “I have (already) seen him this morning. “ the key is something already done. “已經” is the key.
So in both cases, the key is not the time but is the intention / context.
I have the same interpretation as you.
When you say "I saw him this morning", it is implied that morning had passed. So it would be incorrect to say this at 11 am.
If it is still in the morning, the more appropriate way to say is "I have seen him this morning", or "I saw him earlier", rather than "I saw him this morning".
When you say "I have seen him this morning", it generally means that this morning had not passed.
There is a distinction between these phases to differentiate the time relative to when the event took place.
@@mrslcom maybe due to difference in locale, for me in Toronto Canada, it is perfectly fine to say “I saw him this morning” at 11am.
It is so often in our conversation we have something like (at 11am meeting) “why is John not here yet? Is he off today?” I could say, “don’t know, but he was in my meeting this morning at 9”.
@@SG2_channel Yes sure, in normal everyday conversation no one is going to fault you for making a minor technical error. Spoken language is never meant to be absolutely perfect.
However, between the two phases there is a subtle difference as Fanny had pointed out. Saying “I saw him this morning” while you’re still in the morning will actually sound a bit odd, as “this morning” is redundant and there’s no need to refer to the current time period if you’re already in it. Hope this makes sense.
奇怪我家人親家全部是英文為母語。我從來不留意這些問題。
教得好清楚,多謝你☺️🌸
你講嘢好清楚🥰😍 thanks for your sharing
Tiffany 老師，妳教得非常好，如果妳講慢小小就更好了，謝謝！
Tiffany, probably the best English teacher in Hong Kong, simple and clear👍👍👍
Appreciate your sharing. My kid is now in p4, which motivates me to learn English again.
真幸福找到你的視頻，教得非常清楚。
Hi Tiffany, my name is rose, I live in Dallas Texas. Your English course is very attractive to me , you teach grammar very clearly , if you speak slowly, it's better.Thank you !
好正🤤最鐘意睇你講關於tenses嘅片
我都係🙋
講得好好！指出不少華人學時態的不少概念上的誤解及造成混亂；也因此無法學好時態的運用；甚至不求甚解，直至許多年都無法理順當中的玄機，因而失去對英語學習的興趣，更甚者對其產生恐懼。
Here are some tips for learners. The most common tenses that people use every day are:
Present tense. It applies to things that happens or takes place as a routine or habit. Example: He takes the bus to work everyday. I usually take my dog for a walk after dinner. We can also use present tense to describe something: Her smile brightens up the room.
Second most used tense is past tense which is applied / used in events that happened in the past. Example: I went to Disney World in Florida last year. I had a lot of fun.
I ran into John at the Starbucks with his new girlfriend last weekend.
I wanted to go shopping for a new pair of tennis shoes yesterday, but I felt asleep. All the actions took place in the past.
Present Perfect is the third type of tense that we use when we talk about thing or events that happened in the past with known or unknown time and that event is still true or continuing, such as:
I have known Paul for many year. (You met John in the past and you are still friends with him)
I have known Paul since high school. Never thought I would meet him again as my neighbor.( The friendship started when you and John were in high school and you were surprised to see him again as your neighbor)
I have studied English for 15 years ( past -----to present)
I have saved enough money to start a small business. (no specified time in the past, but the saving was ongoing up to the present.
Past perfect tense is occasionally used to describe 2 past events that happened with one preceding the other. Example:
I had considered leaving London six month ago, but Jennifer changed my mind. Note, the 1st action verb is "had considered", not "leaving" which is a noun phrase, and the 2nd action verb is "changed".
This is not to confuse the learners, but there is also future perfect tense which is rarely used except in contrasting context; such as:
By the time Michael's flight lands in London, the police will have realized the crime trails Michael has left behind.
@@stephenlam7677 我聽你的解釋 反而更明白， 聽完那主播反而越聽越糊塗！
非常有益，即娱乐又长见识
多谢芬尼分享！講得好清楚，辛苦啦！👍🙏💗💗💗😘😘😘
老師好多謝妳解釋得好好♥️♥️♥️
你講得好好👍我就係小學雞英文，一知半解。
多謝你嘅講解
super useful
其實，英文的verb tense算是容易，你地知唔知法文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文等的歐洲語言的verb tense仲難，因為他們的動詞每一個1st person 2nd person 3rd person的singular同plural每個字都唔同，英文只是ed, ing等什麼tense都是一樣，其他歐洲語言就不同，例如西班牙文的字"hablar"是spanish的infinitive即是to speak的意思，如果用I, you, he, she, it, we, they，西班牙文的I 是"hablo", you 是"hablas", he,she,it 用"habla", we用"hablamos", you的plural用"habáis", they用"hablan".其他tense仲複雜，名詞又要用陽性名詞和陰性名詞，其他歐洲語言都是一樣，英文一d都冇陽性名詞和陰性名詞，所以我勸你們的English learners說，記英文tense是好容易的事，千祈唔好放棄。
好鐘意睇grammer 片！🤩🤩🤩
加油丫💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
👍好正,解釋好清楚,👍👍💯❤
Tiffany 你能夠在40年前做我的英語老師就好啦 我在加拿大讀書時老師在grammar 方面是輕輕帶過的 我可以講很流利的英語祗是娶了個鬼妹老婆 不停講 同仔女講 講了幾十年 LOL
“I have seen him this morning.” can be better explained by the reason why you are saying this.
For example,
“Is Peter absent today?”
“I have seen him this morning.”
meaning he should be present; can be used in either 11am or 4pm.
Present Perfect Tense is used because it is related to the context, instead of purely looking at time.
For those who are learning on "ESL" level, just remember one thing regarding when to use present perfect.
Infinite time from past to present, do not include any time marker in the context, like, ago, last year, or last week and so on. Wrong example: I have shared an apartment with John six months ago.
Correct example: I have shared an apartment with John since January. ( or for a long time)
PP never associates to past time.
" I have seen this movie many times" Unknown past to present.
" I have never been to London before"
" I have been studying English since I was 12 years old". Notice this is in PP continuous tense because it emphasized the fact that I am still continuously learning as I speak, and this learning process started when I was 12.
Technically, " I have seen him this morning" is against the principle of grammar because of the past time marker being used in a PP condition, and therefore should be avoided.
Don't u think you guys are making learning English a bit complicated? Just say 'did you see him?' ' Did u eat yet?' Btw, I don't think it's normal to say 'he was seen by me' :)
@@sdla690 agree with you.
好犀利，有料教人，咁年青我佩服
我覺得除了 time 和 aspect 之外，用唔同的 tense 有“期許” 或者其他作用:
e. g. 1) Did you see the movie? 只是好奇對方有沒有看，但 2）Have you seen the movie? 是覺得對方應該會看，而提問只是想知道對方已經看了沒有，暗示著看是遲早的問題。
我覺得 did you see 係 問距今日出去做咩，比如睇movie定shopping, have you 個重點就係睇左邊套戲 無時間限制既。比如我今日去睇spiderman 你就應該問 did you see spiderman 但如果只係平時隨口問我有無睇過套戲，就用have you
凡係攝及perfect tense 都同現時有關， 所以咁樣問 Have you seen 都帶有自己想同對方睇之下去問
多謝老師 你講得好好呀😭😭 感謝🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I had similar difficulty using present participle for many years until a few years ago. My understanding about the difference between past tense and past participle is this. Past is as you said something that happened in the past and it is usually associated with a time (like your example in the morning). Present participle, however, refers more to a state of one's activity - usually a binary one. We understand this more when you try to compare present participle and past participle.
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清楚過返學時老師講👍尤其是past perfect tense 同past perfect tense.
多謝您解釋昔日認知的時態誤解
Thx and god bless everyone and the world 🌍 😊
好用心, 支持你
可以係, 即可以唔係
所以係好隨性
最多只係有較偏向性。
謝謝詳細講解
👍🏻👍🏻小中學時，學極唔明，有啲解心結既感覺
支持Tiffany 老師，加油。👍👍👍✌✌✌💯💯💯
非常用心 👍🏻
講得好清楚，thanks!
謝謝你分享, 內容非常清楚, 講解明白, 加油!
超級有用既教學 !!!
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非常清楚解釋👍🙏🏼
説得好！溫故知新一下！😍😍
謝謝分享 👍
Like左，有用呀
多谢老师的分享
讚！解釋得好清楚！非常多謝！👍👍👏☺️
Thanks for the video! Keep up the good work!
利害👍👍👍👍
thanks, 講解清楚
Good to share this video with my friends ! Thanks for the effort !
Thanks for your detailed explanation.
多謝晒！
感恩你！辛苦晒！好大幫助！
講得非常清晰
好有用！😀
真係今日先知 我以為I’ve seen him this morning 係強調’已經‘
Thanks! Very Useful 👍
講得好啊！多謝分享！！
7:09 點先用 I had had dinner with him 同幾時用 I had dinner with him? Thx! Will watch all the ads :D
same logic as that here：th-cam.com/video/O2arPw97cgU/w-d-xo.html
had had = 已经 （描述早前，现在 没什么 关系了）
（I had had a bad impression of him before I met him, but soon after we talked to each other, we became friend.）
（I had had enough of my noisy neighbour, so I decided to move out.）
强调：早就已经
have had = 已经 （现在 还有 关系）
（I have had a busy weekend, I am exhausted.）
（I have had enough to eat, I can't eat anymore.）
（I have had many experience of teaching English.）
强调：已经
had = 曾经有 / 曾经做过...
（I had a noisy neighbour who was so annoying.）
（"You had an accident, don't you remember?" he reminded her.）
（When my father was sick last year, I had to go back to Malaysia.）
用在：描述早前
I hope it helps. ^^
Here is my answer to your question. Unless you are writing a chronological narrative, in everyday usage, past perfect can be substituted with just past tense in many situations. Following traditional grammar, we use past perfect to describe two or more past events so that the order of the events is clear. For instance, I had lived in London for 5 years before I moved to Liverpool where I met my wife. Here, I have two events in this context, "lived in London" and "met my wife". In simple conversation since we have a conjunction " before", we are sure that there is no confusion which event happened first, we can simply use past tense instead. Also, I 'd like to point out, when people engage in conversation, the apostrophe d (for had) is often not detectable so you may hear just past tense. Just remember this rule. When you are describing two past events, past perfect by grammar rule should be used. In conversation especially when you have conjunctions like, before, after, and when etc, you can use past tense alternatively instead.
@@stephenlam7677 Thanks for the clarification ^^
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謝謝謝謝謝❤️
多謝🙏🏻你的教導
感恩您
Hmm, 縂覺得講 'I saw him this morning' 比 'I have seen him this morning' 來得自然,考慮埋context(上文下理)話,11 am, 或 4 pm 講 係冇問題, 因对方(聼者)知道 this morning 完晒未
係咪因為你覺得前者句子比較短，冇咁沉？😂
@@lejunwong2307 Tiff話如果morning完咗,例如下午,就用saw,如果未完,例如上午10点,就用have seen,我覺得咁样,好講究至唔自然,就咁用saw就得,徐非要加重語气才用have seen,再加重语气可用did see
@@jeffleung2594咁又係，事實上我覺得英文好多野D用法真係分得好細下，例如中文一個“會”可以用好多將來既situation，係英文先走去分乜 will、be going to 、be+verb ing
@@jeffleung2594 所以我會覺得英文係一種“思想審查”既語言，每一樣野要分咁細就係要“畫公仔畫出腸”
@@jeffleung2594 but 我聽講英文算叫簡單，我fd話法文D Tense 、5同字既分類（e.g性別既分類）分得仲細
超有用
I know what “I am going to Macau” means but there are other situations I am confused. Some very complicated long sentences are very confusing. Sometimes, it takes time to understand what “he/she/it/they” refers to. I am not sure if there are grammar books to show how to make such long complicated sentences. I don’t know if it is good to study grammar in general or just learn from natives.
It is hard to know I speak incorrectly because nobody is going to tell me as long as they know what I mean. I am not sure how others improve their English after school.
Tiffy 可否教吓 how to answer a negative statement correctly eg. 老師說：
You haven’t done your homework.
D 同學都答yes. Yes 到 亂晒 搞到 老師問 yes you have done then give me the work. 然後他們又答 no ….
好正呀。
我推介給我小五的侄仔了
感謝你
Thank you Tiffany
好有用👍
Good to share with my friends who always hard to understand tense!
好鐘意你啲文法懶人包👍🏻
之後睇劇同書會明白啲文法點用。
多谢您
吾该晒，辛苦晒👍👍👍
Good job!
你講得好好
Good explanations!
Love your video. I absolutely need to learn tense again.
謝謝分享
It depends on the question.
Did you see xx?
Or
Have you seen xx?
What's the difference between "I hate having quit my job" and "I hate quitting my job"? Thank you
Americans use present present and present perfect continuous tenses a lot too
我讀過法文睇返轉頭其實英文真係比法文容易!
Really, moi assui. But I think the (added) difficulty of French is very much due to its conjugations than its grammar. As far as grammar is concerned, I think both are pretty much the same (easy/difficult). My personal experience only.
french verbs are very wide conjugation, and also have masculine and feminine nouns, very confused.
I agree, French is soooo much more difficult than English.
Thank you 😊
正！謝謝你
Thx for sharing
精彩﹗
5:05即係furture tense亦可用present tense and present continues tense
唔係一樣意思呀
英語第一誤區，便以為只應付考試，只要攞到分，就算已out曬，無人用，也照填，總之答左有分就可以了
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謝謝
Thank you
可唔可以話 I had seen him this morning?
比較少咁講架～
有無相關Grammar 書介紹
Thanks ~~~
30岁翻黎听miss 恶补英文 都比翻d单词量比老师咯 感谢miss
Thanks for the teach
teaching ：）
🇭🇰香港人打咭！
内容很好，但满口英语，pastperfect tens ,present perfect tens，听得懂就不用看你视频了。12种时态，中文都未分清，还要来英文
Tenses 講得很好👍
我很喜歡, 可否只報讀 Tense 和 Article？
我不是成人, 而是老人, 不懂怎樣在手機報名🤦
建議你報文法篇啦，只聽部分很容易不明白呢！如果不懂報名可以66270418whatsapp我們啊
中文就不用考慮那麼多因素。英文又要有主動被動，十幾時時式，又 加s, es，連12個月分都要不同，又有連讀，不發音等等，就連寫一句句子都要使用較長的位置比中文。所以中國發明中文真的很聰明。只不是西方首先掘起，令世界各地要被迫遷就他們而使用英語。我覺得英語是簡單複習化的語言。