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What is the difference between Did you meet her? and Have you met her? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Did you meet her? and Have you met her? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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1. Complete action. Past simple
2. Present perfect
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In terms of meaning, I think they're the same. Have you met her sounds better to me, though.
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@17smileyfaces well, I have one question: if you met your friend about month ago, would you use this form of question "have you met"?
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Well...
Grammatically, they are different. But as for sounding natural and making sense, I'd say you should probably use "Have you met?" "Did you meet?" makes me think of this scenario:
A: Well, it wasn't that exciting, until I saw [insert celebrity here] at the airport!
B: You're kidding! Did you meet him/her?
A: No, I didn't meet him/her, but I took a picture!
I don't know if this makes any sense...
"Have you met" makes me think of someone asking "Have you two met?" at a party.
"Did you meet" is more of a 'either you did or you didn't at this particular point in time' kind of thing.
Then again, I'm not an English teacher, just someone who speaks it. If you want to sound natural, this will help. If you want to be right, I have no clue how to help you.
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Did you meet her? (at some specific point, e.g. at the party last night, this afternoon)
Have you met her? (ever, in your lifetime)
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(have u ever met her) this means is this the first time to meet her? /have you met her before?
(did u meet her )this is not the first time to meet her
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