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Monalisatuan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Until today

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00I would appreciate it very much if you would explain why the past perfect , not the present perfect is used in the sentence below:02br
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00Although this story has a happy ending - at least for me-I had never been as scared as I was that day in junior high school . It happened so many years ago that01b00 I had not thought about that terrible day02b00 in a very long time 01b00until today.02b02br
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00As far as I know the 01b00present perfect02b00 is usually used with 01b00until now /today02b00.e.g.I haven't received any letters from them until now/today02br
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00Thank you in advance0-
  

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0Really what the past perfect says here is that thinking about it was done 01b 00a long time ago02b 00, and 01b 00nothing recently02b 00. 02br 00Present perfect would imply that some thinking might have been done in recent times too. 0-

— Marius Hancu

  • 0Really what the past perfect says here is that thinking about it was done 01b 00a long time ago02b 00, and 01b 00nothing recently02b 00.
  • 02br 00Present perfect would imply that some thinking might have been done in recent times too.
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0Really what the past perfect says here is that thinking about it was done 01b00a long time ago02b00, and 01b00nothing recently02b00. 02br
00Present perfect would imply that some thinking might have been done in recent times too. 0-
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01cite10Monalisatuan12cite10It happened so many years ago that11b10 I had not thought about that terrible day12b10 in a very long time 11b10until today.12b12blockquote
10 You only use the present perfect when the state is still current. Using "until today" shows the state is n
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01cite10Monalisatuan12cite10It happened so many years ago that11b10 I had not thought about that terrible day12b10 in a very long time 11b10until today.12b12blockquote
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0Thank you Marius Hancu and Califjim0-
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