Timeline for Does this sentence mean 'recent past' in present perfect tense?
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | Beqa | @Lambie Perfect of recent past is one of the four uses of the present perfect. The one in your example is the experiential ( Or existential ) perfect. | |
| Mar 5, 2018 at 5:47 | comment | added | Lambie | Present perfect is not usually recent past: I have played tennis in the past but I don't play today. That gives a person no idea at all when I played tennis, only that is was in the past, and one can't say whether it was recent or a long time ago in the past. | |
| Mar 2, 2018 at 11:28 | vote | accept | 박용현 | ||
| Feb 28, 2018 at 21:49 | history | answered | Sydney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |