[Grammar] first time that the coach has brought his team....

[Oceanlike]

It is the first time that the coach has brought his team to victory.

I am unsure as to the reason for the use of ‘has brought’ in the above sentence. Has it got to do with the words ‘It is the first time….’? And why?

Thank you for teaching me! :-D

 

[engee30]

NOT A TEACHER

It has, indeed.
'It is the first/second/third etc time...' is normally used with perfect simple tenses. It's like saying:
The coach has never brought his team to victory before.

 

[Oceanlike]

Kindly help me to understand why the use of "simple past tense" is incorrect.

It is the first time that the coach brought his team to victory.

Thank you! :-D

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think this is because the simple present 'is' does not agree with the simple past 'brought', but I am not a teacher.

 

[Rover_KE]

Oceanlike, please state the source of the sentence you have quoted.

You should give us context every time.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Kindly help me to understand why the use of "simple past tense" is incorrect.

I found an example where the simple past is correct, but I am not a teacher.

'That was the last time (that) I saw her.' (My emphasis.) ── quoted from http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/time_1?q=time

 

[Oceanlike]

I found an example where the simple past is correct, but I am not a teacher.

'That was the last time (that) I saw her.' (My emphasis.) ── quoted from http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/time_1?q=time

Thank you, Matthew. I'm wondering if there is any difference in meaning should I rephrase it as "That was the last time I had seen her".
Is it incorrect? If it is also a correct sentence, does the meaning of the two sentences differ from each other?

 

[Raymott]

I found an example where the simple past is correct, but I am not a teacher.

'That was the last time (that) I saw her.' (My emphasis.) ── quoted from http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/time_1?q=time

Your comparison is invalid, since the original example begins with "It is the first time ..." not "It was the first time ..."
The sequence of tenses is different.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I still would accept the simple past. It is the first time that the coach brought the team to victory. It is understandable and grammatical.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Your comparison is invalid, since the original example begins with "It is the first time ..." not "It was the first time ..."

I meant to show that the simple past can be used in the second clause if 'was' is used in the first clause, but I am not a teacher.

 

[engee30]

'That was the last time (that) I saw her.'

With the implied meaning, 'I would never see her again thereafter.'

'That was the last time I had seen her.'
The implied meaning being, 'I had last seen her some time before'. No implication of seeing her again in the future.