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Francesco Schettino's book Today, in Italy, a very disagreeable event has happened. In Meta di Sorrento, a little village situated on the famous and wonderful Amalfi Coast, Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia that sunk tragically, has introduced the book that he wrote. The book is called “Truths submerged” and reads all the verity about that event. During the presentation he has left dedications and autographs and there were Newspeaper and Television too. The most horrible thing, in my opinion, was that a person like him has followers, but even more awful was his comment: “I dedicate it to those people who have been hit in their most loved ones, because the verity is due to them more than anyone.” I don’t know, but this World teaches that only the worst ones go ahead without problems. At least, I hope that all the gain got from that book will be used by him buying medicines.

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Francesco Schettino's book

Today, in Italy, a very disagreeable event happened.
In Meta di Sorrento, a little village situated on the famous and wonderful Amalfi Coast, Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia that sunk tragically, introduced the book that he wrote.
The book is called “Truths submerged” which contains all the truths about that event.
During the presentation he made dedications and gave out autographs and there were newspaper and television reporters too.
The most horrible thing, in my opinion, is that a person like him has followers, but even more awful was his comment: “I dedicate it to those people who have been hit in their most loved ones, because the verity is due to them more than anyone.”
Perhaps this world teaches that only the worst ones get ahead without problems. I hope, at least, that all the gain from that book will be used to buy himself medications.

 

Christian, I am not sure about the quote. I'd need to see what the original one was in Italian. "Verity" deos mean "truth" but it is very formal old English and not used often even in the media or educaitonal material. Above I made correction as I see they would sound better. THere are other ways to say things, of course.

 

Past Tense. When you are talking about something in the recent past, in English you would use the simple Past tense rather than the Present Perfect.

 

In italian you might say:

Questa mattina sono andato in citta`.

 

But in English it would be:

This morning I went into the city.

 

If you say:

This morning I have gone into the city.

 

It really doesn't make much sense. The times where you might want to use the past perfect tens ein English would be the following:

 

I have eaten three slices of pizza. (and I am still eating more). But: I ate five slices of pizza. (and now I am done).

 

So instances where a verb is telling you that you did an action in the past and it may be continuing in the present you use the Past Perfect tense. If something is finished, you use the Past tense.

 

This morning I bought a cappucino at the corner bar. (done, finished, in the past).

So far this morning, I have bought past and eggs for lunch. (but I am still shopping for gorceries).

 

Does that make sense?

 

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Hi John, here I am About your question.... The three slices of pizza that you have been eating so far, is finished action so in Italian you have to say as you said: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza. Now, it depends on what you want to say. If, meanwhile you are talking, you are eating another slice, you have to use the GERUNDIO: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza e ne sto mangiando un altro Then you can add else, for example: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza e ne sto mangiando un altro perché ho ancora fame/perché è buona. The Gerundio Presente is used, also, as in this case, to indicate an action that you are doing in the right moment you are talking. It is built adding THE CONIUGATION OV THE VERB “STARE”  io sto mangiando (I + to stay + + eating) If you will want to eat more (in relation to the moment you are talking) you have to use the future: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza, ne sto mangiando un altro e dopo ne MANGERO’ ancora Also you can talk ex pressing an intention: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza, ne sto mangiando un altro e ho intenzione di mangiarne ancora/altri. Know that in the spoken language we use the present to indicate a future action too. Most of the people would say: Ho mangiato tre pezzi di pizza, ne sto mangiando un altro e dopo ne MANGIO ancora / e dopo me ne MANGIO altri. I hope my explanation has left your doubts. Anyway let me know if you have other questions. Ciao

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