Sample:"My friend,Joe,has lived in hotel for five days."
According to the sentence above,can you tell Joe is still in the hotel now?
2006-11-18 23:57:18 · 13 answers · asked by Gone Car 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I agree with Sue.
Gone Car - Please take note, all the people answering here speak English (presumably as their primary language) yet you got almost as many different answers as there were people answering. What does that tell you? It tells me that in the final analysis people make language, not the other way around. There will always be rules and those who always observe them. But most of us are too busy trying to communicate with one another to pay very much attention to all those rules. And yet, somehow, we do generally manage to make ourselves understood, one to another.
I'm not telling you to ignore the rules. Learn them, certainly. But if you wish to become truly proficient in speaking English, at some point you will have to go beyond those textbook rules. It is in the real world that language lives and thrives.
2006-11-19 08:09:12 · answer #1 · answered by Seeker 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, "Has lived" is past pefect tense. It means Joe has resided in a hotel for 5 days at some unspecified time in the past.
If you want it to indicate that he is still there you need to say:
"My friend Joe has been living in a hotel for the last five days" - past perfect continuous tense and the addition of "the last" defines the time.
While this is grammatically correct, you would not really say someone was "living" in a hotel unless they were there permanently. You would say "staying" or "stayed":
"My friend Joe has been staying in a hotel for the last five days."
2006-11-19 08:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by Sue 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Joe, the one in the hotel, has been there for five days.
2006-11-19 08:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by fricatease 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sentence is grammatically incorrect so I am unable to answer this.
"My friend, Joe, has lived in hotel for five days"-incorrect
"My friend, Joe has lived in a hotel for five days-correct
"My friend Joe has lived in the hotel for five days"-correct
The last one would make me most inclined to say yes he is living in the hotel now
2006-11-19 08:01:03 · answer #4 · answered by dramateen23 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, he does not live in the hotel anymore, otherwise you would have said: My friend Joe has been living ... etc.
2006-11-19 08:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think joe has moved on if you say "has lived" to me that is telling me that he was there and now has moved on.
If you said my friend joe has been living at a motel for five days that would give us something else again.
2006-11-19 08:34:18 · answer #6 · answered by ozi_nut 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he is not still living at the hotel.
2006-11-19 07:59:33 · answer #7 · answered by rinah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who's Joe?
2006-11-19 07:58:53 · answer #8 · answered by Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, he is ...... till today he has lived in hotel for five days .... and still is
2006-11-19 08:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by Regina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that depends on the sentence before it. It has to have a context, otherwise its a simple statement with no supporting context.
2006-11-19 07:59:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋