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Perfect Stranger Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Grammar question no. 36 - recently with other tenses than p. perfect?

Hi,

I've been told many times (by many of you here as well) that recently requires the present perfect tense and yet I'm looking at a book right now, a book on adverbs I have to add, and it lists some examples of adverbs of time. Some users have also claimed that recently doesn't sound well if used at the beginning of a sentence. Here are two examples from the book:

Recently, I bought a new laptop.
I bought a new laptop recently.


Obviously, the past simple tense is used here. Therefore, it makes me wonder... Can recently be used with other tenses? What about this sentence:

I'm so sick of using English recently.

Thanks
  

Top answer

I bought a new laptop recently. The first is not wrong, but the second sounds much more natural to me. Perfect Stranger I'm so sick of using English recently.

— Fivejedjon

  • I bought a new laptop recently.
  • The first is not wrong, but the second sounds much more natural to me.
  • Perfect Stranger I'm so sick of using English recently.
  • That one is very unnatural to me.
  • "
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Perfect StrangerRecently, I bought a new laptop.I bought a new laptop recently.
The first is not wrong, but the second sounds much more natural to me.
Perfect StrangerI'm so sick of using English recently.
That one is very unnatural to me. I would say something like "I've got really sick of ..."
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fivejedjonhat one is very unnatural to me. I would say something like "I've got really sick of ..."
How about I've been really sick of using English recently.
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