Aug 7, 2017 · "I had never seen a goal like that before" places the entire statement back in 2014 when you saw the goal. "I have never seen a goal like that before" places the entire statement in the recent past, and cannot refer to a goal you saw back in 2014.

Jul 14, 2020 · I have never seen such a big fish in real life before. This is the first time. This is the first time. Until recently, I would have thought that the first sentences was incorrect.

Jan 13, 2019 · A: Have you ever seen any beggars in this neighborhood? B: No, I have never seen one in this neighborhood in the past 25 years. (B has been living in this neighborhood for 25 years.) Example 2 The defeat of Japan in 1945 was something the country had never experienced in the past 2500 years. (It's the length of the whole history of the country)

Aug 22, 2019 · I never saw this movie (instead of "I have never seen this movie") I believe that the Present Perfect is usually used with the adverb " never " because the event can still happen in the present. Example: I have never talked to my biological father ( exception : I never talked to my biological father and I found out today that he is dead).

May 24, 2019 · I have never seen "a" snow VS I have never seen snow. I've inputted both sentences to the Google search and found results as following. I have never seen a snow (About 389,000 results) I have never seen snow (About 95,300 results) I have never seen the snow (About 721,000 results) Should I need to add the article or not and why ??? Thanks . PS:

1. Correct. 2. No. The "Wow! What a movie!”part might imply that I’ve seen the movie but what if I said “I had never seen such a movie so I couldn’t comment on it.” It doesn’t mean that I have now seen the movie. 3. No. I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Maybe: “I will never see such a place before I go to India.” –

Dec 25, 2018 · It was the worst accident I have/had ever seen. There is no defined point between the time of the accident and the following weekend when is becomes was and have seen becomes had seen. The same principle holds when you phrase the statement in the negative have never seen and had never seen.

Jan 21, 2020 · It says first that you did experience the awful pain and then that no, you never have had it. That kind of construction is often used colloquially, though. The second sentence is grammatically and semantically acceptable. The phrase, "I had never experienced" means "as of the time under discussion," in other words, yesterday when the back pain ...

May 7, 2016 · This is the best performance I have ever seen. Uses a verb tense have seen which indicates it is the best performance in the past or present. This is the best performance I ever saw. Uses a verb tense saw which indicates it is the best performance in the past, but the performance is over. This means that the better wording (better agreement in ...

Mar 14, 2017 · I have never seen him working.' means that probably he does work but I have never seen him in the process of doing it. The second sentence 'He is very lazy. I have never seen him work.' means that he I was watching him all the time and have never seen him do any work at all. Let's rephrase them to have a side look at the sentences: