i read this yesterday vs i have read this yesterday

Both phrases are not correct. The correct form would be "I read this yesterday." The use of the present perfect tense "have read" with a specific time reference like "yesterday" is not appropriate in this context.

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i read this yesterday

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that the action of reading took place in the past, specifically yesterday.

Examples:

I read this book yesterday and it was really interesting.
She read the email yesterday but forgot to reply.
We read the news yesterday morning.
He read the instructions yesterday before starting the project.
They read the report yesterday and discussed it in the meeting.

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I read this news yesterday and it seemed so impossible to me.
The book I read yesterday was really interesting.
Then why did every article I read yesterday say the leadership was confident the bill would pass?
Then why did every article I read yesterday say the leadership was confident the bill would pass?
Finally, I read yesterday, in the Commission report on the financial perspectives for 2007-2012, that you were proposing a European border protection agency with a European Corps of Border Guards.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, an opinion poll I read yesterday in a newspaper states that 70% of French people believe that they are still in the midst of a crisis and that it has not yet been resolved.
I read his chart wrong yesterday.
- I read a whole book yesterday.
Yesterday I read your Communication to the Council very carefully.
You want a beer? So, I read your column yesterday.
You want a beer? So, I read your column yesterday.
Have you read yesterday's paper?
Remember the story we read yesterday?
We have read yesterday and today what happened with the so-called 'suicide' of 15 women in a concentration camp.
I read in a newspaper yesterday that the mobile telephone market has reached saturation point with approximately 50 to 60 million surplus mobile telephones.
I read yesterday in the papers that a minister - also in charge of sport - was going to come and see President Santer, my colleague Pádraig Flynn and myself to tell us that the Commission was no longer respecting the Bosman ruling of the Court.
You will no doubt have read yesterday that the American Minister of Defence is already putting obstacles in the way of common European defence.
Amy Leone stood up in English lit yesterday and read this tragic poem she wrote about Nick, something about thorns and a rose or vine.
Yesterday I read that Furtwangler was asked to lead NY Philharmonic at 36.
Yesterday I read in an article in a serious German daily newspaper that the subject of Colombia is also on the agenda in the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.

i have read this yesterday

This phrase is not correct in English. The use of the present perfect tense with a specific time reference like "yesterday" is incorrect.

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We have read yesterday and today what happened with the so-called 'suicide' of 15 women in a concentration camp.
You will no doubt have read yesterday that the American Minister of Defence is already putting obstacles in the way of common European defence.
I read this news yesterday and it seemed so impossible to me.
The book I read yesterday was really interesting.
If there are some of you who may not have read my memo yesterday...
Have you read yesterday's paper?
Remember the story we read yesterday?
My feeling is that I have read this.
Then why did every article I read yesterday say the leadership was confident the bill would pass?
Amy Leone stood up in English lit yesterday and read this tragic poem she wrote about Nick, something about thorns and a rose or vine.
We all had a chance to read that yesterday evening, of course.
Okay, man, I have read this more times than the Playboy I found in dad's duffel.
Mr. President, it is with a sense of disappointment and sadness that I have read this report and listened to the various speeches.
Still, if you read yesterday's, why read today's?
Then why did every article I read yesterday say the leadership was confident the bill would pass?
Finally, I read yesterday, in the Commission report on the financial perspectives for 2007-2012, that you were proposing a European border protection agency with a European Corps of Border Guards.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, an opinion poll I read yesterday in a newspaper states that 70% of French people believe that they are still in the midst of a crisis and that it has not yet been resolved.
He read all that yesterday in the guidebook.
Tom didn't read the newspaper yesterday.
I didn't read any books yesterday.

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i read this yesterday vs i have read this yesterday