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Instead, I have done my homework and research, and have found that, without a doubt, Hillary Clinton has a flawless and impeccable background.

This instrument measures the child's perception of parental control by items such as "My mother wants to know if I have done my homework " and "My mother wants to know with whom I hang around".

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I had done my homework and thought it all out, or so I thought.

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How to use the 'Present Perfect'

'I have been to Boston.'

Have/has + past participle makes the present perfect .

She has lost her bag. They have taken a taxi I have been to Australia

The present perfect tense is used to describe something that happened in the past, but the exact time it happened is not important. It has a relationship with the present.

I have done my homework = I finished my homework in the past. It is not important at what exact time, only that it is now done. I have forgotten my bag. = Exactly when in the past that I forgot it is not important. The important thing is that I don't have it now .

As we do not use exact time expressions with the past perfect, we cannot say: I have done my homework yesterday

In this case we use the past simple tense: I did my homework yesterday.

Using already just and yet with the present perfect

Already , just and yet can are all used with the present perfect.

Already means 'something has happened sooner than we expected: 'The movie only came out yesterday, but I have already seen it.'

Just means 'a short time ago': 'I have just seen your brother going into the bank with a gun!'

Yet is only used in questions and negative sentences. It means 'something is expected to happen': 'Have you finished the report yet?' No, I haven't finished it yet.'

Now choose the best answer to make the present perfect:

• My parents ___. have retired has retired retired yet
• Your sister ___ my car. has borrow has borrowed have borrowed
• Have you ___ the movie yet? looked have seen seen
• Please wait. I haven't finished ___. yet already just
• Water __ found on Mars. has been have has be
• I have ___ all my money. spend has spend spent
• They ___ you a cake. have maded have made have make

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"I'm done" or "I've done"

When someone asks whether you have completed a task e.g. shopping, dinner. What should be your answer?

I have done.

To me, the former sentence's formation, Sub + VBe+ Past Participle, falls to passive voice. Therefore, it has a totally different meaning from I have done Sub + Predicate (verb intransitive).

According to Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 3rd ed., the verb do is an intransitive verb in the meaning of complete/finish.

In the sentence, same formation as I am done :

I am beautiful.

The verb am (of VBe) links the adj beautiful to the subject of the sentence I . Therefore I, the subject of the sentence, is beautiful (in other words, state of being).

Then in the sentence :

The subject, I , is linked to the adjective done . So the subject's state of being is done , in other words dead ?

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• "I have done" sounds rather archaic to me, largely because of John Donne's "When Thou hast done Thou hast not done, for I have more." But it's entirely possible that it's Donne's nationality rather than his epoch that accounts for his usage. –  Andreas Blass Commented Apr 24, 2016 at 2:15
• Related . –  tchrist ♦ Commented Apr 30 at 14:33

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Done is used as the past participle in combination with have , obviously, but done is also used as an adjective meaning "carried out, completed, or treated in a particular way: her hunting days were done " (Webster's); as such, either statement is correct depending on the context. Usually, "I have done" would require an object (done what , precisely?) and "I am done" would signify that one was finished with, say, a task. At least in the U.S., a person would be much more likely to say "I'm done" to indicate the conclusion of an activity like homework or chores, and so on.

• 1 I have heard I am done mostly in the USA. To my hears, it would have a different meaning, but that is because my first language is Italian (see what sono finito would mean in Italian). :-) –  avpaderno Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 13:29
• 3 This does seem to be a UK vs. US English thing - I am in the US and "I have done" with no object sounds very strange to me (I've specifically noticed it in some British movies, actually). –  Justin Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 14:18
• Based on Webster's defination in the sentence : I am done ; I , the subject of sentece , is being completed. It's not the task which is completed. –  Mr.X Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:09
• 4 I have done without an object sounds outright incorrect to my (American) ears. You can say I have finished if you don't like "I'm done" for whatever reason (whyever not?), but not "I have done". –  Marthaª Commented Mar 3, 2011 at 23:15

'Have' is strictly correct. You would properly say:

Yes, I have done.

Yes, I have finished.

However, 'I am done', 'I'm done', or 'I'm all done' is also generally accepted to mean the same thing. I believe it's more prevalent in US English.

• 3 Would I have done work on its own? I find it is missing the task. Have you done the shopping? Yes I have. Or Yes I have done the shopping. But not Yes I have done. –  mplungjan Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 12:41
• Yes, 'I have done' works, because it's not 'on its own'; it's given context by the question, just like 'Yes, I have' is. –  user3444 Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 12:53
• With "I have done", I would specify the object. "I've done it." Also, "It's done." Whoah...semantic satiation on "done"... –  Chris B. Behrens Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:28

In UK English especially, done is a verb, not an adjective. Saying "I'm done" sits very uncomfortably with me.

• So do I, if we follow VBe, the subject of the sentence is BEING DONE not the task. –  Mr.X Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:12
• 3 Really? You don't find "It's done!" acceptable? I don't think it's the verb/adjective difference, but the agentive use as opposed to the patient. –  Colin Fine Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:16
• 2 Having said which, I (though UK) do find "I'm done" acceptable. –  Colin Fine Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:21
• @Colin Because of Americanisation, I bet. Saying "It is done" (as an adjective) sounds archaic to me. Like something out of a 30's film about Moses. –  MSpeed Commented Jan 31, 2011 at 11:05
• 1 @Collin, It's done could mean the programme is completed or finish, it's different from I am done. –  Mr.X Commented Feb 3, 2011 at 3:12

As far as I understand, "I have done" is perfectly alright. But if someone is asking after whether you're completed with a task it may be more direct just to reply "I have finished (it)."

"I have finished."

"I am done" means you are a cake that is done. You're cooked. If you have finished a task or a job, you should say, "I have finished", or "I'm through".

• I have finished - agreed, that makes perfect sense. But I'm through ? You're through what, a tunnel? I know that's a popular American expression but if you think about it, it doesn't make sense, it's an unfinished sentence. Ironically, it's a sentence which isn't finished/done/whatever! –  user171842 Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 23:53

Silliness, regardless what Oxford and Cambridge argue.

"I have done x" represents a task/project finished in past tense, whereas "I am done" expresses one is finished a task/project in the present tense without further explaination (if one were dead, they could not tell you). But "I finished" means one has completed a task/project without expression, too.

"I finished" is more American/Canadian, while "I have finished" is used by the Brits.

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Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America 

Done my homework.

(Yerastov 2010b:117)

The done my homework construction involves a form of the word be , followed by the participle finished or done (or, for some speakers, started ), followed by a noun phrase. (1) and (2) show two examples of this construction:

1) I’m done my homework. 2) I’m finished my homework.

Note that the noun phrase does not have to be my homework . In fact, it can be almost any noun phrase, as shown by the following examples taken from Hinnell (2012:4):

3) a. Martin is done his bass tracks and we are ready to start vocals. b. By the time I am done dinner , I don’t want my side snack. c. So many bloggers I read are doing this. One is already done her 50,000 words ! d. This will be particularly important once you’re done the tattoo and need to leave the shop.

Who says this? Syntactic properties Recent survey results References

Who says this?

The done my homework construction is a widespread characteristic of Canadian English, and it is also found in the United States among speakers in the Philadelphia area, southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and the northern part of New England (Yerastov 2008, 2010a, 2010b, 2012, 2016; Hinnell 2012; Fruehwald and Myler 2013, 2015; Zanuttini et al. 2016). It has not been found in the dialects of the United Kingdom or elsewhere outside of North America.

See our interactive maps below to explore some of the raw data in more detail.

Syntactic Properties

The syntax of this construction has recently been studied in some detail by Fruehwald and Myler (2013, 2015). The following description is based on their work.

Degree modification by all

The done my homework construction may seem to resemble a sentence like I have done my homework . (A sentence that, like this one, contains have plus a participle is said to be in the perfect aspect ). However, the phrase done my homework is actually more similar to adjective phrases such as ready for school because, like an adjective phrase, these phrases can be modified by the degree word all . (4a) shows a typical example of all modifying an adjective phrase (namely, ready for school ), and (4b) shows an analogous example of the done my homework construction with modification by all :

4) a. I’m all ready for school. b. I’m all done my homework.

By contrast, done my homework may not be modified by all when it is used in a sentence with the perfect aspect. Thus, (5) is not acceptable:

5) *I have all done my homework.

This is evidence that the done my homework construction is not an instance of a verb phrase in the perfect aspect but rather is more like an adjective phrase.

Co-occurrence with perfect aspect

The done my homework construction also differs from verb phrases in the perfect aspect in that done my homework can actually co-occur with the perfect aspect, as in (6):

6) I have been done my homework for a while now.

By contrast, although done my homework can co-occur with the perfect aspect as shown in (6), the perfect aspect cannot co-occur with a second instance of the perfect aspect in the same sentence. Thus, (7) would not be acceptable:

7) *I have had done my homework for a while now.

Fruehwald and Myler (2013, 2015) show several other ways in which the done my homework construction is distinct from the perfect aspect.

No leaving the object behind

At first glance, it may be tempting to think that the done my homework construction involves simply not pronouncing the word with in a sentence like (8):

8) I'm done with my homework.

Fruehwald and Myler (2013, 2015), however, present several differences between the two constructions. One such difference is the ability (shown in (9c)) to move the word done to the beginning of the sentence, similar to the movement of proud and angry in (9a) and (9b):

9) a. Proud though John is of his daughter , it won't matter. b. Angry though John is with his daughter , it won't matter. c. Done though John is with his computer , it won't matter.

This kind of movement is not possible with the done my homework construction. For example, although the entire phrase done his homework may be moved as in (10b), (10a) would be judged unacceptable because only done has moved, leaving the object his homework behind:

10) a. * Done though John may be his homework , it won't matter. b. * Done his homework though John may be, it won't matter.

In this respect, it is similar to phrases like worth the money because (11a), like (10a), is unacceptable, whereas (11b), like (10b), is acceptable:

11)  a. * Worth though this may be the money , it won't matter. b. * Worth the money though this may be, it won't matter.

Fruehwald and Myler (2013, 2015) also argue that the meaning of the construction is not what we would expect if it involved an unpronounced with .

Allowed verbs

There is variation across dialects in terms of which verbs speakers allow in this construction. According to Yerastov (e.g. 2010a, 2010b), there is a hierarchy along the lines of finished > done > started . In other words, if speakers accept started (as in I'm started my homework ), they will accept all three verbs. If speakers accept done , they will also accept finished , but not necessarily started . Finally, some speakers accept only finished . This kind of hierarchy resembles the one found in the needs washed construction with need > want > like (see here for further discussion of the needs washed construction).

Recent Survey Results

The following map shows results from a recent nationwide survey. It represents speakers' judgments of the sentence I'm done my homework . There is some description of the map on the left, as well as a legend in the upper righthand side.

This next map shows recent results of a survey regarding various iterations of the PAST-PARTICIPLE + YOUR HOMEWORK construction:

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@Hannanananananh I did my homework is past tense, a completed action - yesterday, last night, etc. I have done my homework is present perfect - it means you did something in the past but the result affects the present/future. For example, I have done my homework so I can turn it into the teacher tomorrow. I had done my homework is past perfect meaning you did first something before something else. There are typically two actions - one happens first, the other one second. Example: I had done my homework before I went to bed. (Two actions- first I did my homework, second I went to bed.). Here are some other examples: I ate lunch at noon yesterday. I have eaten lunch today and am not hungry anymore. I had eaten lunch before you came to visit me. Hope this helps you!

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have you done/did you do your homework?

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hi, i find it hard to decide which tense to use when there are no time references. for example, let's say a teacher walks in the classroom and asks his pupils:"have you done/did you do your homework?"which tense should be used in this situation? i'd use the present perfect but i'm not sure. thanks!  

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The present perfect makes sense in that situation, but the simple past is also possible. Have you done your homework? Did you do your homework?  

owlman5 said: The present perfect makes sense in that situation, but the simple past is also possible. Have you done your homework? Did you do your homework? Click to expand...

"Have you done your homework?" This happened in the past, but somehow affects the present. "Yes." "You should give it to the teacher tomorrow." In this case, we might assume that the recently completed homework can be handed in now. The completion of the homework affects the present. "Did you do your homework?" This happened in the past. It doesn't affect the present or we don't care how it affects the present "Yes." "Why did you do so poorly on the test?" You are thinking about a past effect of doing the homework.  

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<< Moderator's note: This question has been added to a previous thread. Please scroll up and read from the top. >> Hi, I'm new here, and I have a question about something that was bothering me for quite a long time. What is the difference between the regular form of past tense, and the form 'have past_tense '? To give you the right context, what's the difference between: "Did you do your homework?" and "Have you done your homework?" << New example will need its own thread. >>  

You mean the simple past and the present perfect. Here's a good primer: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast.htm In short, the simple past is used when referring to a situation that is completely in the past (and thus concluded, with little to no relevance for the present situation). The present perfect (which is not a past tense) is used when referring to situations that are still happening and/or have a relevance for the present situation.  

That said, there is often little distinction between these tenses in the everyday use of the language. Using the simple past ("did you do your homework") in situations that actually call for the present perfect ("have you done your homework", because the enquirer wishes to know if the person's homework is now done) is especially common in American English. << Response to deleted question. >>  

"Did you do your homework?" and "Have you done your homework?" For example, if a child wanted to watch TV, mum or dad could say either of them but the second (the one using present perfect) is better because it emphasises that we are talking about now, today. If an investigator was asking about something before the present then the first one is correct. Teacher: On the night before you went on vacation last year, did you do your homework?  

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[This post and the following ones have been added to a previous thread in which the same question was asked. Please read down from the top. DonnyB - moderator]. Context: I want to ask if my son has done the homework or not Did you do your homework ? Have you done your homework ? Which tense is better and why? Do we need "the" before "homework" in the context?  

Since you live in the UK, use "have you done", since you are interested in the situation in the present. I think AmE usage is "did you do". Don't use "the" with "your". "Your homework" is the usual way of saying it.  

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A teacher gave a home assignment to his students one week ago. His students show up and say that the homework is still undone. What would they say? - We haven't done our homework. - We didn't do our home work.  

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Ivan_I said: A teacher gave a home assignment to his students one week ago. His students show up and say that the homework is still undone. What would they say? - We haven't done our homework. - We didn't do our home work. Click to expand...

Parla said: I think the teacher would use the simple past tense ("Did you do your homework?") since the reference is to work assigned the day before and it should have been done the evening before. Click to expand...

Helenejj said: What would the teacher say if the work was assigned three days ago? Click to expand...

Uncle Jack said: The present perfect indicates completion. "Have you done your homework?"asks the same question as "Is your homework complete?" Click to expand...

Helenejj said: Doesn't "Did you do your homework?" indicate that the homework is complete? Click to expand...

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"I'm done my homework" vs "I'm done with my homework" - Why is the former considered unacceptable outside of Canada?

I wasn't quite sure how to make this post. I couldn't find an article on the topic to use as an excuse to ask this question anywhere. In fact, the only posts on this topic that I could find were a few stray blog posts and forum threads of people complaining about how the construction "I'm done my homework" or "I'm done work" or "I'm done the dishes" etc, are somehow wrong and horrid to the ear. In fact, I considered posting them to r/badlinguistics as an excuse to ask the question there instead, but figured that questions really aren't in the spirit of the "bad" subreddits, so whatever, I'll just ask it outright.

Though the forum posts and blogs are generally unsourced, low quality whining, they seem to come away with one conclusion (kind of) and that is that this construction is generally only heard in Canada (and maybe Phillidelphia). Does anyone with more formal linguistics education than I know more about this? To me, and I should note that I am Canadian (Alberta), the construction "I'm done x" is not only correct, but is in fact the way I would almost always express that thought. The fact that most English speakers would say "I'm done with x", and would consider the former phrase wrong actually shocks me. I would never add a "with". I wouldn't ever have thought to add it. I wouldn't have dreamed that people not only add the extra word but actually get into a prescriptive rage at people who do not.

And yet there's almost nothing discussing this anywhere. Most tiny dialectual differences between Standard American and Canadian English are hijacked and hyped up to no end in the continually hopeless search for some kind of Canadian nationalism, but this doesn't seem to have happened for this phrase. It seems nobody notices it. Why would this construction happen? Why would it be limited to Canada? Is there any mention of this in actual scholorly work? (Labov maybe?)

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This Mom Says She's Opting Her Kid Out Of Homework This Year

“The only thing that you should be worried about is learning and what time snack time is.”

A new parenting trend on TikTok begs the question: is homework optional? For some parents, that seems to be the case as some moms and dads are coming forward to announce that they are not making their kids do homework when they get home from school.

After an emotional homework session , one mom decided that all the fighting and tears were not worth the trouble, noting that she emailed her son’s teacher to tell him that he would not be participating in homework this year.

“For any parents that might not know this, and I just recently learned this, is that you can actually opt out of homework for your children,” Arizona mom, @cayleyxox said in her now-viral TikTok.

For context, her son goes to a charter school so this “opt out” news might not apply to all.

“I didn't know that until recently, and I just sent my son's kindergarten teacher a cute little email saying, ‘I'm sorry, based on the stress, mental, physical anxiety it's causing my kid, we are done. We are done opting out for the rest of the year.’”

She then shared the moment when she decided to make this change.

“On the first week of school ... he got this packet. It's for August. It doesn't look like it's all that bad, but it's about 15 to 20 pages double-sided. You do the math. We have been working on it and trying to work on it to the best of our abilities, and it is causing him so much mental, physical stress,” she shared.

“This morning I had him sit down. I felt so guilty for this. We were sitting down, I told him, ‘You can't even watch a show this morning. You can't do anything. It's going to be radio silence until you sit here and eat your breakfast and finish at least one or two pages of this. Because you're way behind.’ This is so much work for him. I started crying. He started crying. It was an emotional mess.”

She attributes the stress of homework to her son’s sudden lack of interest in going to school at all.

“I felt so guilty dropping him off at school. He didn't want to be there. For the last two weeks, he's told me he doesn't even like school and doesn't want to be there anymore, which hurts my mama heart because you were five. Five. You were in kindergarten. The only thing that you should be worried about is learning and what time snack time is,” she said.

Cayley then wonders what kind of message having kids to homework actually sends, noting that she wants to teach her kids to “work to live not live to work.”

“What are we teaching kids? What are we teaching them? That, ‘Oh, yeah, here you go. You're going to go to work and you're going to be paid salary, but it doesn't matter if you don't finish your work in the eight to ten hours that you're there Monday through Friday. You're going to bring that work home and you're going to do that on your own time.’”

“No ... not up in here. We are not teaching our children that. Work to live. We don't live to work ... In this household, we're done doing homework. I want my kids to love school. I want him to love to learn. I want him to have fun. I want to enjoy it ...”

The TikTok mom was met with mixed responses. Some users agreed with her take while others argued that she’s teaching her kid to be entitled.

“I hear this, but then I think how 50% of the population has a 7th grade reading level in the USA,” one user wrote.

“I would maybe find some strategies to motivate him to get his homework done. Positive incentives, goals, make it a game. Use fun pens etc. You have to put in the work to make it fun,’ another suggested.

Another noted, “I’m gonna play devils advocate, as a teacher mama who also hates homework because we have busy extracurriculars! Sometimes it’s less about ‘they need to be doing work’ and more about ‘sit with your kids And read to/with them, study spelling words, or do some math problems? Show them you are interested in what they are learning, and I promise the benefits will multiply!!”

The OP replied, “That’s a great point I personally am just ranting to the internet I’m respectful of his teacher and her doing as she feels best and will never speak down but things will be modified as needed”

Several TikTok users wanted an update, asking how her son’s teacher responded to her email regarding the homework boycott. Things didn’t exactly go well.

During a face-to-face interaction at school pick-up, Cayley and the teacher discussed the email.

According to Cayley, her son’s teacher noted she had never received a complaint about homework to which she replied that she wasn’t complaining but rather “addressing the situation that's no longer gonna work for their family.”

They went back and forth about the amount of work with the teacher trying to negotiate how much the kid could do. The OP did not back down but opted for a reading log of 15-20 minutes of reading per night.

“No more f**king packets are happening in this house. That's for damn sure,” she concluded.

Cayley is not alone in this thinking. Besides the hundreds of moms who supported her in her comment section, another mom on TikTok also shared that her children will not be doing homework.

TikTok mom ( @phillybee12 ) also shared that if her kids are doing well in school, she will not have her kids doing homework.

“We don't do homework. Yesterday ... I get a phone call from [my daughter’s] teacher. She's calling to tell me how well my daughter's been doing in class for the last week and tells me that her grades are good. I said, ‘Well, I just want to let you know while we're on the phone, we don't do homework.’ It is at this point in time that three other women inside the viewing room turn and look at me,” she beings, imitating confused glares.

“Like I'm some kind of psycho for not doing homework. Well, as long as the grades are good, we don't do homework. They're in school for seven hours. I'm not gonna have them come home and push homework. They go to sports. They sit at home with us. They talk. They play on their phones. We watch a movie together, whatever it is, it's not homework. So until their grades are bad, we're not a homework family. Are you a homework family?”

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Harris defends her policy changes in first interview: 'My values have not changed'

Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed about her policy evolutions Thursday in her first interview since she became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, sitting alongside her running mate, Tim Walz.

The highly anticipated interview, with CNN’s Dana Bash, came after pressure had been building for Harris to answer more questions from impartial journalists and fully sketch out how her vision differs from that of President Joe Biden. She has largely avoided doing either in the 39 days since he decided not to run for re-election and endorsed her, instead. 

“I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective,” Harris said when she was asked about her policy evolutions, "is that my values have not changed.” 

She acknowledged, however, that her experience as vice president has led her to update her views on certain issues. 

“I believe it is important to build consensus and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems,” Harris added, seemingly nodding to how political realities may have influenced her views. 

Harris ran for president in 2019 on a progressive agenda that included “Medicare for All,” a Green New Deal and a ban on hydraulic fracturing, a method of harvesting natural gas or oil known as “fracking." That campaign flamed out, and when Biden chose Harris to be his running mate, she naturally adopted his agenda and platform.

But with Harris atop the ticket herself now — along with a policy landscape that has changed — it has been unclear where she differs from the policies of her 2019 campaign and those of Biden, some of which are incompatible.

Harris had not sat down for an interview or stood for a news conference since Biden stepped aside and endorsed her, meaning the public has seen her almost exclusively through the campaign-controlled lens of rallies, web videos and last week's Democratic National Convention. 

Any other modern presidential candidate in history would have done numerous solo interviews throughout the primaries and into the general election, long before they sat down with their running mate for a joint interview in late summer. 

But Harris had no such luxury, given the timing of her elevation. She has had to recalibrate her policy positions and build a campaign infrastructure on the fly during the white heat of a presidential general election.  

Harris is also trying to simultaneously execute a pivot to the ideological center, as is common for presidential candidates heading into the November election season.

For instance, Harris told Bash she no longer supports a ban on fracking because she has seen during her time as vice president that the U.S. can accomplish its climate change goals without banning the oil and gas extraction method, which is a major industry in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. 

“We can do it without banning fracking,” Harris said. “In fact, Dana, Dana, I cast the tiebreaking vote that actually increased leases for fracking as vice president. So I’m very clear about where I stand.” 

Still, Harris seemed defensive at times when she was pressed to acknowledge that she has changed positions or asked to remark on the evidence that led her to change her views. 

Asked whether she stood by her 2019 support for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, Harris did not answer directly but said that “there should be consequences” for unauthorized crossings and touted her experience prosecuting transnational gangs as “a border state attorney general” in California.

Harris also said she was interested in appointing a Republican to her Cabinet.

“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris said. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

Walz sat silently during most of the interview before he was asked about his own controversies — including moments in his past when he seemed to play up parts of his 24 years of experience in the Army National Guard.

In a speech after a school shooting in 2018, Walz, the governor of Minnesota, referred to the weapon that was used as being similar to the one he carried “in war,” even though he had never seen combat. 

Walz said his wife, Gwen, an English teacher, tells him “my grammar is not always correct,” but he largely dismissed the controversy as Republican hooey. 

“If it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog — I’m not going to do that. And the one thing I’ll never do is I’ll never demean another member’s service in any way. I never have, and I never will. I’ve been very public. I think they can see my students come out, former folks I’ve served with, and they do. They vouch for me. I certainly own my mistakes when I make them.”  

Lasting just 30 minutes, the interview could cover only so much ground. Many hard questions for Harris and Walz remain unanswered. And it did not have time to delve into the softer-focus — but often equally compelling to voters — topics of the candidates’ personalities or relationship with each other. 

There were no questions, for instance, about the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan or former President Donald Trump’s controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery this week. 

Harris has faced growing calls from Republicans and many in the news media to answer more hard questions, and the single interview is unlikely to fully quiet those ahead of the Sept. 10 debate with Trump

“If you turn [an interview] into a remarkable event, then you raise the stakes for yourself,” David Axelrod, the former top strategist to Barack Obama, said on a CNN panel before the interview.

Alex Seitz-Wald is a senior political reporter for NBC News.

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Is this sentence correct "If did not do my homework I would have to do my home work tomorrow"?

Currently I am doing my home work. And I just want to know the sentence which is given bellow can fit in this context. "If I did not do my homework I would have to do my home work tomorrow?" If it does not fit in the context then what will be the correct sentence?

• I'd rather revise it in a couple of ways; if you intend to emphasize the specific time that you didn't do your homework, say yesterday, then "If I didn't do the homework YESTERDAY, I'd have to do it tomorrow". if it's not and you want to emphasize the 'state' of your homework not having done until now, then "If I haven't done (with) my homework, I'd have to do it (by) tomorrow". –  Gwangmu Lee Commented Feb 8, 2020 at 5:03
• Actually I realized the former one is a little bit awkward, as someone not having done with his/her own homework seems not likely to be an assumption. –  Gwangmu Lee Commented Feb 8, 2020 at 5:06
• Is your latter one a Conditional Sentences Type II? –  user192183 Commented Feb 8, 2020 at 5:12
• Well actually I never knew the conditional sentences have types :D –  Gwangmu Lee Commented Feb 8, 2020 at 5:14

You have to first tell what you actually want to express, and then we can say whether a sentence expresses this and/or whether it is correct English.

If you say "If I didn't do my homework" without any qualification, I would interpret it as "If I never did homework". In that case you would obviously not do your homework today, tomorrow, or any day.

If you were given homework today that is due the day after tomorrow, then you would say "If I didn't do my homework today, I would have to do it tomorrow". You would probably say "it" instead of repeating "my homework".

If your teacher or lecturer told you that you had to do either today's or tomorrow's homework, but not both, you would say "If I didn't do my homework today, I would have to do tomorrow's homework".

If your teacher / lecturer gets angry if you don't do your homework, but gets very angry if you don't do homework twice in a row, you would say "If I didn't do my homework today, I would really have to do tomorrow's homework".

• "If I didn't do... I would have to" is incongruent here. There are three possible states and each of them has a better phrasing. Homework is already done, consideration of counter-factual: " If I hadn't done... I would have to ". Homework is not yet done, but is planned, consideration of unlikely possibility: " If I don't do... I will have to ". And third, homework is neither done nor planned, contemplation of factual future: " Because I am not doing... I will have to ". –  Ben Voigt Commented Apr 4, 2021 at 20:17

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