Neither of those is correct. " "since" needs to be followed by a specific time reference or specific event. ", "It has been several days since I asked you for the questions", "It has been three years since we last met", etc.
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Blue JayB would mean I was waiting for your questions several days ago, but I have not waited for them since.Sorry, yes, you're right. Rather than saying it was not correct, I guess I should have said it had an unusual meaning that probably wasn't the intended one.
Blue JayA is incorrect. B would mean I was waiting for your questions several days ago, but I have not waited for them since.Did you mean "I have been waiting for your questions for several days"?It has been some days is normally followed by a mention of something that happened in the past, or has not happened since some poin
19216801Then don't we use following structure ?! Perfect tense + since + past continuous Do we always add a specific time happened in the past just right after "since" and not continuous it till now or something ?It is rare because the durational activity (the continuous action) must approach a point in time as conceived. Contexts like this are possible:
19216801Yes I intended to use by " it's been ...' instead of "I've been waiting for ..." how it can be expressed in the "it's been .." form or formula or anything it's called ?!!?!?I'm not sure there's any way. "It's been several days that I've been waiting for your questions" is less wrong than "since", and some people might say it, but it doesn't see