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Bookmark or Share- past tense - I've started or I started - English Language Learners ...I've started doing the project Or I started doing the project. I don't know the first one sounds like I've ...
- tense - English Language Learners Stack Exchange"I've had to go" is the present perfect tense version. e.g. "I've had to go to the bathroom for 2 hours now (and still have to)". On the other hand, "I get to go" is a compeletly different expression that means "I am permitted (either by someone or the circumstance) to go). e.g. "I get to go to Disneyland next week".
- word usage - Difference between "I've" and "I have" - English Language ...I've taken I've got. But when you talk about possessions. For example: I have a blue jacket. Its not that necessary. And don't mix up between abbreviating is to 's And has to 's. She's been to London. → She has been to London. She's beautiful. → She is beautiful.
- "I've not" vs. "I haven't" — is one preferred?When I speaking English I think in my mind that's easier to pronounce the word NOT separately from the verb to be like are or is for example instead of I say you aren't most if the times I'd say you're not or it's not so to me it's preferable use I've not it's clearer I don't know why but I think I'm not saying the negative form when I use these contractions isn't, aren't or haven't
- "I never saw it before" vs. "I have never seen it before"The before sets this in a period of time continuing up to the present, so I would always use the present perfect I've never seen ... before. – Colin Fine Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 10:13
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