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Ilia Pim
It's done, It's been done or it was done? Is it grammatically correct to say it's done or it's finished when we have the completed action/work. For example "Have you finished your work?". "Yes, it's done." or "Yes, it is finished" If it is correct I don't really get why because of the passive voice rules saying that you should use is/are when the action is still happening and was/were, when the action was completed.
26 сент. 2022 г., 20:25
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It's one of those examples wherein language is not a set of prescribed grammatically correct rules. Yes, formal rules of grammar incorporate past perfect, present perfect, and on and on it goes; in that regard, you are correct. But, colloquial usages mix and match words and bypass strict rules. Those who have mastered a language can play with the language. So . . . Yes, it's common to hear.
Closer to home example:
Person 1: "You finished?"
Person 2: "Yep, all done!"
26 сентября 2022 г.
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In "it's done" and "it's finished", the past participles are used as predicate adjectives; it's not the passive voice. We know this only by the context. In this situation, the passive voice would be "it's been done / finished", but that would imply that someone else did the work (or else we would just answer "yes, I have").
2 октября 2022 г.
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This is a great question. In the case of “it’s done”, I think done is acting as an adjective. We’re using the present to show it was done (ack) recently. I also agree with the person who said, when in doubt, you can answer using the same grammar as the question.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/done_1
28 сентября 2022 г.
Hmm.. I would respond to 'Have you finished your work?' with 'Yeah, I have' or 'Yeah, I've finished my work'.
I would reply 'It's done' if someone asked me 'Is your work done?', and 'It's finished' if someone asked me 'Is your work finished?'.
So I guess the response kind of correlates to the way the question was asked?
26 сентября 2022 г.
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Ilia Pim
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