Present Perfect or Past Simple
Today, talking to my colleague and discussing english I was kind of surprised.
The thing is that I always thought Present perfect is used when there are words as:
- this month
- this spring
- this week
- today
and so on, while past simple is used when you see:
- last month
- last spring
- last week
- yesterday
But today I saw an example:
She has traveled to Alaska twice this month (she might travel again)
She traveled to Alaska twice this month (she probably won't travel again this month)
So what do you think of it?
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The present perfect 'She has traveled to Alaska twice this month' is more appropriate, given that the event was recent. . . The simple past is not wrong, but would imply that the action is finished, as you suggest. . . Sometimes the way these tenses are used depends on the context in which the action that has taken place is being discussed.
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