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Old Tue Sep 23, 2008, 01:14am
SanDiegoSteve SanDiegoSteve is offline
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Originally Posted by Steven Tyler View Post
The sentence sounds as if bigredmachine called college ball in one of the best college associations around in the past tense. It in no way implies he calls D-1 ball in the present or future tense.

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Actually, the sentence implies that he has called college ball, not that he used to call college ball. "I have called" can be either past or present tense. A verb tense expressing an action that began in the past and which has been completed or continues into the present is known as the present-perfect tense. The present-perfect is formed by combining "has" or "have" with a past participle, which in this case is the word, "worked."
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