Timeline for "My wife and I have been living here since we have been married." is the tense correct?
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| Sep 25, 2014 at 16:31 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | An alternative phrasing: "My wife and I have been living here as long as we have been married." | |
| S Sep 25, 2014 at 11:38 | answer | added | blah | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Sep 25, 2014 at 11:38 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Sep 25, 2014 at 10:40 | answer | added | Magooda | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 5:11 | comment | added | Khan | The example of since we have been eaten does not fit in here. The word married has been used here as an adjective. Please see my answer below. | |
| Sep 25, 2014 at 5:07 | comment | added | Khan | The example of "since we have been eaten" does not fit in here. The word married has been used as an adjective. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 22:25 | answer | added | Dave | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 21:48 | answer | added | Pete Kirkham | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 19:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/514851947372109824 | ||
| Sep 24, 2014 at 18:41 | comment | added | Sanchises | Gramatically, this suggest that you are now past the point of having been married. Compare with, for example, 'since we have been eaten'. This sentence would only be correct if you got married in Vegas for a night, broke up the next morning but then moved in together. | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 16:33 | answer | added | Hellion | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:15 | answer | added | user230 | timeline score: 18 | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:13 | answer | added | Mohamed Hamza | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:08 | history | asked | Ann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |