On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 10:17:22 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 09:06:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>Brian wrote: > >>> > >>>I'd also dispense with the dd part and just mount the media somewhere. > >> > >>VIOLATES 1st line of "Environment". Please note verb tense. > > > >I have. It's the "present". Do I get points now? > > "have copied" is PAST tense - *not* PRESENT tense.
Oh; with "violates" in capitals I thought you were drawing attention to that. "have copied" is the perfect tense. Can we do gerunds? I'm rather fond of them, :) > Some languages have an explicit form denoting "an action completed in the > past with a continuing effect in the present". Wish English did. The Present Perfect?
