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Diamondrg Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

during recent years

which tenses can be used with this time phrase?
  

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Hi, which tenses can be used with this time phrase? My first reaction is to say all the past tenses, although you might have to find special contexts for some of them. Why don't you try to make sentences with each tense, and if you find some that you're not sure of, post them here for us to comment on?

  • Hi, which tenses can be used with this time phrase?
  • My first reaction is to say all the past tenses, although you might have to find special contexts for some of them.
  • Why don't you try to make sentences with each tense, and if you find some that you're not sure of, post them here for us to comment on?
  • A more common form of this expression is 'in recent years'.
  • Google gives 545,000 hits for 'during .
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Hi,

which tenses can be used with this time phrase? My first reaction is to say all the past tenses, although you might have to find special contexts for some of them.

Why don't you try to make sentences with each tense, and if you find some that you're not sure of, post them here for us to comment on?

A more common form of this expression is
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1b00During recent years, many people ---- interested in Turkish music.02b02br
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00A) might become 02br
00B) are becoming02br
00C) had become 02br
00D) would become02br
00E) have become02br
00F) became02br
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00Which ones are correct?0-
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0Hi,02br
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00First, what do you think? 05002br
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00Best wishes, Clive010id1
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0 E and F seem to work. I think "during recent years" can be used with both present perfect and simple past.02br
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00Would "might have become" be correct if it was one of the choices? (I think, yes. 05000)010id1
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0Hi,02br
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00E is clearly the answer that the tester is expecting.02br
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00F sounds a little wrong to me when paired with 01i01u00During recent years02u02i00. It sounds a bit better if you change the phrase to01i00 01u00In 02u00recent years02i00, becsause 'during' ref

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