How to use the construction - it has been some years?
I found the following sentence while I was watching an Youtube video. Because it seems as if this construction could be helpful for me, I noted that. However, I'm not precisely sure whether it is feasible to use this construction to talk about event occurred in the recent past. Therefore, I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether the following sentences that I've written based on that sentence which was on the video. In addition, could someone please let me know the name of the construction if it is possible because I could google it and find suitable articles if I know the name.
Original sentence:-
It has been a hundred 20 years since Henry Cavendish measured the gravitational constant with a pair of lead balls suspended by a wire.
My attempts to use the construction: -
It has been few yeas since I completed that course.
It has been 5 years since I talked with him.
It has been two weeks since I watched the television.
It has been 5 days if I'm not mistaken since I went there.
Reference with time it is the first sentence of the video:
Top answer
Here's the formula: It has been [expression of time] since [event in the simple past tense]. dileepa I'm not precisely sure whether it is feasible to use this construction to talk about event occurred in the recent past. It would be odd to use an expression of time measured in less than days in that formula, but as usual, these time relationships are relative to the time scope of the event in question.
- Here's the formula: It has been [expression of time] since [event in the simple past tense].
- dileepa I'm not precisely sure whether it is feasible to use this construction to talk about event occurred in the recent past.
- It would be odd to use an expression of time measured in less than days in that formula, but as usual, these time relationships are relative to the time scope of the event in question.
- dileepa the name of the construction It's such a common combination of words and tenses that it has no name.
- You might find something about it if you searched for the usage of 'since'.
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Here's the formula:
It has been [expression of time] since [event in the simple past tense].
dileepaI'm not precisely sure whether it is feasible to use this construction to talk about event occurred in the recent past.
It would be odd to use an expression of time measured in less than days in that formula, but as usual, these time
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