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Sitifan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

I have started preparing for it since last Saturday.

I have started preparing for it since last Saturday.

Is the above sentence acceptable?
  

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Yes, it´s correct. - You used a present perfect to express that somewhere in the past the activity started and now continues to go on. - preparing (-ing form) after the verb 'to start' is correct as well.

— Dokterjokkebrok

  • Yes, it´s correct.
  • - You used a present perfect to express that somewhere in the past the activity started and now continues to go on.
  • - preparing (-ing form) after the verb 'to start' is correct as well.
  • A to-infinitive would also do.
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Yes, it´s correct.

- You used a present perfect to express that somewhere in the past the activity started and now continues to go on.

- preparing (-ing form) after the verb 'to start' is correct as well. A to-infinitive would also do.

- to prepare for something (correct usage of the collocation) e.g. prepare of something would be incorrect.

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I think some would object to this sentence and would rather read "I have been preparing for it since last Saturday" or "I started preparing for it last Saturday".

They would say that the present perfect stresses the duration/continuation of an action/a state, and that you can't start an action over a period of time (after you start, you're already preparing -- the starting
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Yes, 'starting' is pretty much a point action; it cannot normally have duration.

Either:
I started preparing for it last Saturday.

Or:
I have been preparing for it since last Saturday.
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