Timeline for Which is ‘more correct’: "It has been a month since you graduated" or "It has been a month since you ʜᴀᴠᴇ graduated"?
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| Jul 14, 2021 at 2:11 | comment | added | Benjamin Harman | Your question is based on a false premise because neither is innately more correct than the other. What'd be more "correct" would depend on intended meaning, but such is the nuance that there's often overlap. In a nutshell, if you're meaning to refer to some present effect of the past action "graduate," you'd be more apt to use the present perfect "have graduated," like if you're saying the sentence as a segue to ask what they're now going to do with their diploma or degree. If not, you wouldn't, like if you're segueing to ask what they've been up to for the past month. So it depends. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 2:02 | answer | added | JavaLatte | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 1:42 | history | edited | tchrist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2021 at 1:26 | comment | added | Royster | @livresque - your reference is on point, but that answer is unusable. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 0:33 | comment | added | livresque | Does this answer your question? When do i use "I" and "I have"? | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 0:14 | history | asked | user428161 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |