Lately: simple past or present perfect?
Which tense do you normally use with the adverb "lately": present perfect or simple past?
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"Lately" implies that whatever is happening, it is still happening. That is a wonderful occasion to use the present perfect because that tense means that something started at some point in the past and continues to happen now. I have been teaching for many years.
- "Lately" implies that whatever is happening, it is still happening.
- That is a wonderful occasion to use the present perfect because that tense means that something started at some point in the past and continues to happen now.
- I have been teaching for many years.
- I'm still teaching.
- Lately I've been concentrating on pronoun case in my English classes.
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"Lately" implies that whatever is happening, it is still happening. That is a wonderful occasion to use the present perfect because that tense means that something started at some point in the past and continues to happen now.
I have been teaching for many years. I'm still teaching.
Lately I've been concentrating on pronoun case in my English classes. I started to teach pronoun ca
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