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The poor Past Family

0Because grammar writers claim that Present Perfect doesn't stay with past time adverbials:02br
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00they in their books hide away the past time adverbials that can stay with Present Perfect, such as 01i00in the past four years, over the past five weeks02i00, etc. I call them the Past Family because they each have the adjective 'past'. Grammars don't talk about them at all. What do you think?0-
  

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0 I think that present perfect doesn't work well with past point-in-time references like 'yesterday', but revels in time adverbials of duration leading up to now, such as 'over the past four years'.02br
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00 I don't think that there is any point in dallying with your 'past' family, as it is only an adjective: 'over the past/recent/succeeding/previous/last four years
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01cite10Mister Micawber12cite10I think that present perfect doesn't work well with past point-in-time references like 'yesterday', but revels in time adverbials of duration leading up to now, such as 'over the past four years'.12br
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0 Are you going to call 'over the succeeding years' a 01i01font00succeeding time adverbial02font02i00 ? The particular adjective does not necessarily classify the sentence part. What I'd call it would depend on its use in the specific sentence, I think. I suppose however that in most cases 'over the past years' would be a past t
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