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Healer Posted 4 years ago
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"since" as a preposition always means "continuously during a period of time", doesn't it? Do both fragments of sentences below suggest the pacemaker is still IN PLACE, in that the pacemaker has not been removed and is still operational?Since I have had the pacemaker implanted... Since I had the pacemaker implanted...
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healer Since I have had the pacemaker implanted... The perfect seems uncalled for, so one is tempted to interpret "since" as "because". healer Since I had the pacemaker implanted...
- healer Since I have had the pacemaker implanted...
- The perfect seems uncalled for, so one is tempted to interpret "since" as "because".
- healer Since I had the pacemaker implanted...
- OK.
- Both clearly mean that the pacemaker is still in place, but they say nothing about its functioning.
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healerSince I have had the pacemaker implanted...
The perfect seems uncalled for, so one is tempted to interpret "since" as "because".
healerSince I had the pacemaker implanted...
OK.
Both clearly mean that the pacemaker is still in place, but they say nothing about its functioning.
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