Sunday, August 28, 2016

tenses - Present simple vs. present perfect




I'm doing a key word transformation and I've come to this sentence:




There aren't any eggs left.
"We ____ eggs".




I should complete the sentence with 2–5 words using the word "run".



At first I thought of





We run out of eggs.




but could I use present simple here if it's not a repeated event? Should I use




We've run out of eggs.



Answer




Yes, pretty much as you've been arguing:




We run out of eggs.




Running out of eggs is a thing that we do.




We've run out of eggs.





We have recently run out of eggs, and therefore it can reasonably be inferred that we have no eggs.


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