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Thanks Buddhaheart,
I was thinking also, is it fair to say (by way of explaination and to help with undertanding), that to say 'I have been ill' makes sense (but with no adverb of time) but to say 'I have been recently' doesn't make sense with out the 'ill' part?

Hello, New here but in need of some help! I was covering some present perfect tense stuff with my learners this week and I was asked why we say "I have been ill recently" rather than "I have been recently ill"? I adopted a rabbit in the headlights stance and said 'because we just do'. Can anyone hel...