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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
The progressive continuous form
1. If “Ms. Brown has taught mathematics at high school since 1995” is right, could you tell me why “I had worked in Australia since 2005 when I was offered a new job in the USA” and “She had researched the human genome since 2000 when she became the laboratory chief” are wrong?
2. Are both of “She researched the human genome for ten years after she became the laboratory chief” and “Tom was living in New York for three years when I met him in 2010” right?
2. Are both of “She researched the human genome for ten years after she became the laboratory chief” and “Tom was living in New York for three years when I met him in 2010” right?
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"Ms. " is correct. This is one of the alternate usages of the present perfect tense: to depict an action continuing into the present.
- "Ms.
- " is correct.
- This is one of the alternate usages of the present perfect tense: to depict an action continuing into the present.
- "I had worked in Austr.
- " sounds like it could be right, but it is incorrect.
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"Ms. Brown has taught math in high school since 1995." is correct. This is one of the alternate usages of the present perfect tense: to depict an action continuing into the present.
"I had worked in Austr. since 2005 when I was offered a new job in the US." sounds like it could be right, but it is incorrect. The problem here, apparently, is that the phrase "since 2005" is so strongly a
"I had worked in Austr. since 2005 when I was offered a new job in the US." sounds like it could be right, but it is incorrect. The problem here, apparently, is that the phrase "since 2005" is so strongly a
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Then, how about "Since the party she had only spoken to him once"? Is it also wrong?
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