In the textbook by by Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd edition, on page 26:
- "The Chinese invented printing."
Raymond Murphy says that we can't use the present perfect here. I question why?
According to Murphy:
"We can't use the present perfect if there's no connection with present."
But I guess there is a connection/result in the above example because we have printing now.
So why can't we say:
- "The Chinese have invented printing."
Why is version #2 wrong?
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