Present Perfect + temporal expression
Hello! I have found this sentence in a L2 English textbook and I do not understand why the author chose to use the present perfect when there is a sentence which acts as a temporal expression: "Four years after she and her family arrived in Britain from Poland with only some English, eighteen-year-old Joasia Kossowska has been accepted by Cambridge University to read law." I (think I) know all the uses of the present perfect tense and this example has really been bugging me for a while. Thank you in advance!
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It is the most common and ordinary use of the present perfect. It refers to an event that happened in the recent past. Eighteen-year-old Joasia Kossowska has been accepted by Cambridge University to read law.
- It is the most common and ordinary use of the present perfect.
- It refers to an event that happened in the recent past.
- Eighteen-year-old Joasia Kossowska has been accepted by Cambridge University to read law.
- Four years ago, she and her family arrived in Britain from Poland with only some English.
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It is the most common and ordinary use of the present perfect. It refers to an event that happened in the recent past.
Eighteen-year-old Joasia Kossowska has been accepted by Cambridge University to read law. Four years ago, she and her family arrived in Britain from Poland with only some English.
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