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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
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As head of the New Komeito party, Natsuo Yamaguchi is the most senior politician to visit China since ties worsened last year.
On the BBC website, a sentence: As head of the New Komeito party, Natsuo Yamaguchi is the most senior politician to visit China since ties worsened last year.
In modern English, when SINCE is used to show the time, the only possible tense is the perfect (or aspect), but I don't know why in cases like the sentence like the above, I have an exceptionally strong impulse to use IS, the simple present tense. Do you think the above sentence is ungrammatical?
In modern English, when SINCE is used to show the time, the only possible tense is the perfect (or aspect), but I don't know why in cases like the sentence like the above, I have an exceptionally strong impulse to use IS, the simple present tense. Do you think the above sentence is ungrammatical?
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Johnson13 In modern English, when SINCE is used to show the time, the only possible tense is the perfect (or aspect), Not true, as the example you have quoted shows. Here is another common example: It is three years since I got married. Johnson13 in cases like the sentence like the above, I have an exceptionally strong impulse to use IS, the simple present tense.
- Johnson13 In modern English, when SINCE is used to show the time, the only possible tense is the perfect (or aspect), Not true, as the example you have quoted shows.
- Here is another common example: It is three years since I got married.
- Johnson13 in cases like the sentence like the above, I have an exceptionally strong impulse to use IS, the simple present tense.
- Just as in the example I gave you, eh?
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Johnson13In modern English, when SINCE is used to show the time, the only possible tense is the perfect (or aspect),Not true, as the example you have quoted shows. Here is another common example: It is three years since I got married.
Johnson13in cases like the sentence like the above, I have an exceptionally strong impulse to
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Thanks. But your example is different from mine.
In your example, IS can also change to HAS BEEN.
In your example, IS can also change to HAS BEEN.
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