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Rajesh jain Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Present perfect

It has been many years since I have seen a firework
Is the present perfect used after "since" in the sentence is in a way of simple past?(does it indicate a particular point in recent past and not some continuing event?)
  

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rajesh jain It has been many years since I have seen a firework This is a common utterance of native speakers that makes no grammatical sense. If you are writing carefully, use the simple past (and 'firework' should be plural): It has been many years since I saw any fireworks.

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  • rajesh jain It has been many years since I have seen a firework This is a common utterance of native speakers that makes no grammatical sense.
  • If you are writing carefully, use the simple past (and 'firework' should be plural): It has been many years since I saw any fireworks.
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rajesh jainIt has been many years since I have seen a firework
This is a common utterance of native speakers that makes no grammatical sense. If you are writing carefully, use the simple past (and 'firework' should be plural): It has been many years since I saw any fireworks.
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or:

I haven't seen fireworks for many ( five ) years / since 2008.
I haven't seen a fireworks show in years.
I haven't seen fireworks in quite a while.

Is that correct?
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