Monday, December 9, 2019

difference - Why is 'The Chinese have invented the printer' wrong?


In the textbook by by Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar, 2nd edition, on page 26:




  1. "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:




  1. "The Chinese have invented printing."




Why is version #2 wrong?




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