"recently" with past perfect
Hello!
I've seen a grammatical exercise for past and present tenses many times that looks like this:
sentence 1: I went out with some friends yesterday evening.
sentence 2: I... to the cinema recently.
But today I've run into those two sentences as a united text. The task therefore looks like this:
I went out with some friends yesterday evening. I... to the cinema recently.
1. haven’t been
2. wasn’t
3. hadn’t been
I think that the correct answer this way would be 3, but it makes the word "recently" a bit meaningless imho. Is that ok to use past perfect here so it could be explained as "I hadn't been to the cinema recently before yesterday evening", or is it better to use present perfect here?
Thanks.
Top answer
Although "recently" usually comes with the present perfect tense, it can be used with the simple past tense, too. I look it up. And if it can be used with the simple past tense, then it can be used with the past perfect tense as well.
- Although "recently" usually comes with the present perfect tense, it can be used with the simple past tense, too.
- I look it up.
- And if it can be used with the simple past tense, then it can be used with the past perfect tense as well.
- Nevertheless, I still tend to use the "present perfect tense", which means I would choose option (1) in both of your examples.
- Originally I don't see any connection between the two sentences in your example.
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Although "recently" usually comes with the present perfect tense, it can be used with the simple past tense, too. I look it up. And if it can be used with the simple past tense, then it can be used with the past perfect tense as well. Nevertheless, I still tend to use the "present perfect tense", which means I would choose option (1) in both of your examples.
Originally I don't se
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