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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Present Perfect Continuous or Past Continuous?

Could anyone please help with this dilemma I'm having? Emotion: smile

I have this sentence "...have developed the product based on the enquiries we received over the PAST few years."

I have this subconscious rule that one should not use finished time-words when using present perfect, but my colleagues and Google are trying to convince me that this sounds right.

Would be grateful for your comments/corrections.
  

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have developed the product based on the enquiries we received over the PAST past few years. That fragment (it's not a sentence) sounds OK to me.

  • have developed the product based on the enquiries we received over the PAST past few years.
  • That fragment (it's not a sentence) sounds OK to me.
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Anonymous...have developed the product based on the enquiries we received over the PAST past few years.
That fragment (it's not a sentence) sounds OK to me.
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Note that there is no continuous form in your sentence.

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