Have already eaten or have eaten already?

in British English (BrE) we would always use the present perfect: I have already eaten. in American English (AmE), people speaking more formally would also say I have already eaten.

Is it correct to say I have eaten?

I would say “I have eaten” or “I had eaten.” Both are correct. The difference is that “had eaten” is past; “have eaten” means you ate recently.

What is the difference between ate and have eaten?

Eat is the present simple. Ate is the past simple. Eaten is the past participle.

How do you say you’ve already eaten?

Eat is generally present tense and ate is past tense. Therefore if you put the word already after it the correct usage is “ate already”. There is no correct one.

How do you respond to you’ve eaten?

I use ‘yes’ if I have eaten regardless of whether the question was posed in the positive or negative. My reply to the negative question might be more emphatic (by stressing have). Have you eaten? Yes, I have.

How do you say I already eat?

“Already ate”, or “have already eaten”.

Did you eat or have you eat?

The correct expression is “Have you eaten?” This is due to the fact that the auxiliary verb “to have” is followed by the past participle of the base verb, for example, in this case, “eat.” While, indeed, the base-verb is “eat,” the past participle of the verb”eaten” is called a lexical verb.

Did you eat or already ate already?

Originally Answered: Which is the correct one “eat already” or “ate already”? Eat is generally present tense and ate is past tense. Therefore if you put the word already after it the correct usage is “ate already”.

How do you say I have my dinner?

Just had dinner is the correct form of usage if you want to say you finished your dinner……

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2. “I just had dinner”/”I have just had my dinner” -> Very recently.
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Is “I have already eaten” correct grammar?

This is correct: “I have already eaten.” It is not correct to say: “I have already ate” because that mixes two different tenses, the present perfect helping verb “have” with the past tense verb “ate”. The present perfect helping verb “have” needs to be followed by a verb of the same tense, the present perfect tense.

What is the tense of ‘I have eaten’?

Hi Renas, ‘ I have eaten’ is a Present Perfect tense, linking the past with the present. It is an action that happened in the past, but gives no time frame, for example: ‘ I have eaten Octopus’. ‘I ate’ is a Past Simple tense – it is an action that happened in the past.

What is the difference between ‘ATE’ and ‘eaten’?

‘Ate’ is Simple Past tense. eg I ate dinner yesterday. ‘Eaten’ is the past participle. eg I’m not hungry. I have eaten dinner. But people who speak this way do not usually understand grammatical explanations. You could tell her that’s why we say ‘I have gone’ and not ‘I have went’, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she says ‘I have went’ as well as…

Can You Say “did he ate already?

You cannot say * “Did he ate already?” because you have past tense twice (“did” and “ate”) which violates syntactic logic—tense markers appear once and govern the whole clause. You can rephrase and ask “He ate already?” of course.