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Jerry Chen
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 Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:43 am Post subject: Need help from English native speakers/grammar question |
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Hello,
Most grammar books tell us that "recently" can be used in simple past tense or present perfect tense. How about "in recent weeks/months/years"? Can it be used only in present perfect tense?
Thanks for responding to my question. |
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pinenut
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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Location: Illinois, U.S.A.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:54 am Post subject: Re: Need help from English native speakers/grammar question |
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| Jerry Chen wrote: |
Hello,
Most grammar books tell us that "recently" can be used in simple past tense or present perfect tense. How about "in recent weeks/months/years"? Can it be used only in present perfect tense?
Thanks for responding to my question. |
The Google search can be your best friend.
I searched this phrase, "in recent months" and got 40,000,000 hits.
Here are three of them.
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In recent months, the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Portugal and Finland have all included measures to expand broadband access and to bolster ..
In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide....
Five interviewees who traveled to Iran in recent months said they were forced by police at Tehran's airport to log in to their Facebook accounts. |
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Jerry Chen
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| Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: Need help from English native speakers/grammar question |
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In recent months, the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Portugal and Finland have all included measures to expand broadband access and to bolster ..
In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide....
Five interviewees who traveled to Iran in recent months said they were forced by police at Tehran's airport to log in to their Facebook accounts. |
Thank you very much.
So that means "in recent weeks/months/years" can be used in both past tense and present perfect tense? Thanks. |
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