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He until recently worked as a software developer.
He has only recently worked as a software developer.
Are both sentences above grammatical, and if so, do they mean the same?
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tkacka15 He until recently worked as a software developer. He has only recently worked as a software developer . Are both sentences above grammatical, and if so, do they mean the same?
- tkacka15 He until recently worked as a software developer.
- He has only recently worked as a software developer .
- Are both sentences above grammatical, and if so, do they mean the same?
- Yes.
- While the first conveys what the person did in the recent past, the second, with the present perfect, seems to link the past action to the present.
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tkacka15He until recently worked as a software developer.
He has only recently worked as a software developer.
Are both sentences above grammatical, and if so, do they mean the same?
Yes. While the first conveys what the person did in the recent past, the second, with the present perfect, seems to link the past action t
0tkacka15He until recently worked as a software developer.
This means that had a job developing software, and he stopped doing that not long ago.
tkacka15He has only recently worked as a software developer.
This means that he began to work on software development not long ago, and he never did that before. but there
01. He worked as a software developer until recently, and then (suddenly) stopped working as a software developer.
2. He has started to work as a software developer only recently (before that he was a software checker, for example).
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