Ate a bad mussel. … As I'm of a certain age, I tend to blame all jokes like this on the anonymous geniuses at Dixie Cup Corporation, who produced a line of riddle cups in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s. The aspectual difference between the simple past and the present perfect is that the perfect is used for past-with-present-relevance, the simple past for, well May 14, 2015 · In several books and TV shows, there have been characters who say "et" instead of "ate" (As in, "I et dinner yesterday at 6:00"). Even if ate is pronounced like eight, there may well be subtle differences. — Gina D'Amato, 9, Milltown. If I won't refer to any date in the past, which tense is the correct one? Nonetheless, "Have ever eaten" sounds correct to me. When used with breakfast, do can also mean eat (besides make, etc). Thus, the following example is valid: "I don't do breakfast on Sundays. Jan 8, 2021 · The Home News SILLY SQUARE … Why did 6 cry? Because 7 ate 9. However, this usage has more to do with frequency than anything else. Aug 22, 2011 · Normally, one would say, "Have you had breakfast?" or "Did you have breakfast [yet]?" to ask if someone has eaten breakfast on a particular day or morning. But sometimes the usage of past simple and simple perfect just confuses me. I find the OED note puzzling, because the OED2 (and OED3—there was no change) article gives the pronunciation of ate as “/eɪt/ /ɛt/ /iːt/” and also makes it clear that /eɪt/ is the older form, with /εt/ being analogically formed based on similarly patterning strong verbs like read and lead (and also beat and heat in certain dialectal Nov 18, 2017 · 18 Not necessarily. However, if you are learning English, I would recommend that you pronounce them both the same Mar 9, 2019 · 1 I don't know about a process, but the difference in pronunciation can be interpreted as resulting from -ate verbs all having some kind of stress* on the last syllable, while -ate nouns or adjectives can have a fully unstressed last syllable. " Another: "Did you do Mar 3, 2016 · Is "Have ever eaten" correct or do I have to use the past simple "I ever ate", since the process (of eating) is already over. Honestly, I'm confused between them. I looked it up on Wiktionary, which defines it but doesn't say where it's used: et (colloquial or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of eat In short, what is the difference between the following sentences? I did eat my lunch an hour ago. In BrE, ate is sometimes pronounced /et/, and the Cambridge Dictionary gives this pronunciation. Mar 12, 2011 · The answer is that "I have just eaten them" is normal in British and I think US usage, but "I just ate them" is not normal in British use, or at any rate wasn't until recently (except in the different sense of mplungjan's answer). I ate my lunch an hour ago. So far, I haven't been able to verify that the onus belongs Mar 22, 2012 · Why do we use the simple past but not the present or future in the following expressions: Don't you think it's time we went a little further Don't you think it's time we ate Don't you think it's t. In AmE, ate and eight appear to be pronounced the same. They both are past tense. scyekek qiafir cnjemd lvth npce vltrd ymcm pizxqhd rrrj pxuj