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[Lais Pimentel]

como eu posso dizer que uma coisa acabou de acontecer? tipo a pouquissimo tempo atras?
ex: eu acabei de te ligar

[RenanKenplers]

Oi Laís,

''Just'' me parece apropriado. Veja o exemplo:

Ex: I have just called you. (Eu acabei de te ligar).
Ex: I have just done it. (Eu acabei de fazer isso/aquilo).

A palavra just antecipada a um verbo no passado particípio (past participle) dá a idéia de que a ação foi concluída há poucos instantes.

Hope it helps,

Regards,

[donay mendonça]

Lais,

Sugestões:

I have just called...(Eu acabei de ligar...)
I have just seen...(Eu acabei de ver...)
I have just spoken...(Eu acabei de falar...)
She has just asked...(Ela acabou de perguntar...)

Sujeito + have/has + just + verbo(particípio passado)

Bons estudos!

[Lais Pimentel]

O "have" pode ser omitido sem perder o sentido da frase?
tipo:
I just called
I just seen

[Flavia.lm]

Laís

Vai depender de algum possível complemento.

I just called Matt -> Eu acabei de ligar para o Matt.
É entendível, muita gente fala assim, omitindo o have. Mas o correto, gramaticalmente falando, é usar o have sim. Se preferir, use a contração "I've just called"

I just called to say I love you (aquela música famosa) = Eu só te liguei pra dizer que te amo.

[maryziller]

Laís

Vai depender de algum possível complemento.

I just called Matt -> Eu acabei de ligar para o Matt.
É entendível, muita gente fala assim, omitindo o have. Mas o correto, gramaticalmente falando, é usar o have sim. Se preferir, use a contração "I've just called"

I just called to say I love you (aquela música famosa) = Eu só te liguei pra dizer que te amo.

In American English it is not incorrect to say I just verb in simple past .

Examples:
We just ran out of toilet paper.
I just finished dinner.
I just arrived.
He just left.
You just missed him.

In the song he does not mean Eu acabei de te ligar você. He means that he called for no special reason (no agenda or problem to discuss), he only wanted to talk (implying that he likes you and misses you).

[Flavia.lm]

Tem razão, Mary.
Eu que tenho "mania" de colocar present perfect sempre que vejo alguns advérbios...

[Henry Cunha]

We know what the song line really meant:

I called just to say I love you.

When exactly the call was made seems unimportant. We forgive the grieving songwriter his loose word order.

Regards

[pondedaniel]

Laís

Vai depender de algum possível complemento.

I just called Matt -> Eu acabei de ligar para o Matt.
É entendível, muita gente fala assim, omitindo o have. Mas o correto, gramaticalmente falando, é usar o have sim. Se preferir, use a contração "I've just called"

I just called to say I love you (aquela música famosa) = Eu só te liguei pra dizer que te amo.

In American English it is not incorrect to say I just verb in simple past .

Examples:
We just ran out of toilet paper.
I just finished dinner.
I just arrived.
He just left.
You just missed him.

In the song he does not mean Eu acabei de te ligar você. He means that he called for no special reason (no agenda or problem to discuss), he only wanted to talk (implying that he likes you and misses you).

I'm sorry but I partially agree with you Mary. First of all because this is neither about American nor British English.

Second the main purpose of the present perfect tense is to focus on what happend.

Teaching new students that using the present perfect tense is something that we can choose whether or not use it, like those examples you mentioned, may not be helpful clues. That's because from time to time native speakers (not only English ones) tend to ommit certain words as it sounds too obvious for them. Nevertheless, I must state that it's perfectly understandable to elaborate senteces like the ones you posted in spoken language.

Thefere, I usually suggest my students to use the present perfect tense in this case.

Take care,

Daniel

[Flavia.lm]

Thefere, I usually suggest my students to use the present perfect tense in this case.

Take care,

Daniel

Do you see where it starts? Daniel is a teacher. All my teachers have always said the same. Let me see... since 1995, I studied with around 10 different teachers. This guy says the same. (although I would say this video is not a reference point).
If we put together all the discussions about the use of simple past x present perfect that we have in this forum, we could write a complete thesis...