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Hi everybody, I have been in USA for 3 months. I've been learning English for a years, but I still have a lot of troubles with using English tense correctly. Me and my friend (who isn't native speaker but he is exchange student coincidentally as well) were arguing about using
- Present Perfect
-
Simple Past
I mean, It's not a big problem to use it usually, but sometimes I doubt which one would be better to use.
Let me ask you a question - imagine situation I am asking my friend question
A: Hey B, HAVE YOU KNOWN blah blah blah?
B: Nooo A, I HAVEN'T KNOWN IT, good to know it.

A1: Hey B, DID YOU KNOW blah blah blah?
B1: Nooo dude, I didn't, good to know though...

See, I don't know which one use, according to my friend I am supposed to use 1st example, because he has never known about it, unless I let him know. But in my opinion there is not need to use PRESENT PERFECT.

In theory, I know differences between these two tenses, I have read a lot of articles but sometimes (like now) it still doesn't make any sense. It is so confusing, isn't it?
Please let me know which one is correct.
Thanks in advance!

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