Recently in the past perfect

It sounds OK to me.

Anonymousit had been raining hard recently".

Not to me... Past perfect suggests time and event(s) passed and completed. If the authors wishes to express something closer to the present, I see no reason to use past perfect. Thus, "It has been raining hard recently" is the only logical choice, grammatcically speaking. Of course, we do hear people using wrong te

dimsumexpress Thus, "It has been raining hard recently" is the only logical choice, grammatcically speaking.

In "It has been raining hard recently", "recently" is relative to now.

In "It had been raining hard recently", "recently" is relative to the point in the past from which the past perfect is reckoned.

Anonymousis it correct to use "recently" in with the past perfect tense?

Yes.

Mike was in a lot of pain that day because he had recently had a tooth extracted.

CJ

oops of course, it's "with"

thanx a lot