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Is it correct to use "since" with the verb hate or like?
I hate math since I was in primary school!
means that being in primary school caused you to hate math. It is the same as saying, "I hate math because I was in primary school."
To say that ...
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Is it correct to use "since" with the verb hate or like?
A native speaker isn't likely to say either of those - you'd expect to see either
I've hated math since primary school!
or
I've hated math ever since I was in primary school!
or even
I've hated ...
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Are "I have already finished since 8 am" and "I finished since 8 am" correct?
Present perfect tense always refers to the relationship between the referenced event or action and the present. "I have finished", means "I completed the action before now."
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"Since/For weeks he had been waiting for the reply."
The explanation you found contains the answer. "Since" requires a starting point. "Weeks" identifies a duration, not its start. The following is correct:
Since June he had been ...
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In "... has been hailed as a hero in Japan after ...", why "after" and not "since" if it is in present perfect?
This sentence is correct and natural as originally written in the CNN news story.
The phrase "after she saved", in this context, means something like "following her saving" or &...
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Are "I have already finished since 8 am" and "I finished since 8 am" correct?
To me, "already" indicates that it happened in the past, so you would just say "I already finished it." If you wanted to specify the exact time, you would say "I finished it ...
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"Since" vs "that"
First,
It had been several years since I travelled that road
and
It had been several years that I travelled that road
are both grammatically proper and idiomatic, but they have different meanings.
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since he became manager
Neither of them rings true to me. I would choose between
He has been growing since he became a manager
to emphasise that it has been happening over a long period
He has grown since he became a ...
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Quite Confusing Text Like a Riddle Needs to Be Explained
This is from the preface of the mentioned book. The book includes material previously presented as lectures.
The preface speaks of "presenting at Harvard"; that expression means teaching or ...
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It is/has been a period time + since something that could continue for a period of time happened. The start time is when that thing stopped happening?
To match the respective charts, I'd say
It's been three years since I last worked in the company; last gives a definite start point of the ending; worked alone doesn't.
I wouldn't use have worked ...
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Ever since vs Since then
I think you will find the usage of ever since varies with location and dialect. All I can do is tell you how I, speaking midwestern AmE, use ever since and why I use it that way. In most cases you ...
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It has rained a lot since June
All that you can tell is that it has rained a lot after June ended in the first case and that it has rained only twice after June ended in the second case.
The sentences have an implicit meaning of "...
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What alternatives could better be used instead of "since five years ago"?
To be honest, the entire sentence feels odd. I believe your source mentions this in the footnotes, but on top of their explanation, I think it sounds awkward to use "plan" for a repetitive event. ...
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Why can't I use Present Perfect Continuous or vice versa Present Perfect forms in these sentences?
In English context is very important and I have learnt that stative verbs cannot be used in the continuous tense, but otherwise it all depends on context and sometimes regional differences.
In the ...
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"Since/For weeks he had been waiting for the reply."
If you look at the definition of since in the Cambridge dictionary, it says
from a particular time in the past until a later time, or until now
"from a particular time" must be something ...
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"since the very first time" + Present Perfect to denote only one-time action
You're right, "since the very first lesson" would mean "all the time from the first lesson until now". It's not the same as "in the very first lesson".
What you need for ...
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have+since+past participle
The "progress in the biotechnologies" occurred after the time when "Few believed this technology had a future" (probably soon after the technology was developed). The word "...
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He didn't do that from when he was a teenager
The usual way to speak of past habits is the "used to" construction:
She used to visit his grave every weekend.
If you need to specify when she started and to visit, you can add:
She used ...
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I met my boss three years ago
The first sentence can mean either 3 years have passed since you last met your boss, or you met your boss for the first time 3 years ago. It depends on context.
The second sentence means - you haven't ...
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Is it appropriate to put "since" at the beginning of a sentence if it comes after a question?
The first quoted sentence is grammatically incorrect, because it combines two independent clauses without proper punctuation or a coordinating conjunction. Here's a breakdown of the sentence:
"...
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Have you been learning French since you were a kid? ---> in the past
I would say:
"Did you start learning French when you were a kid?"
"My brother started learning Italian when he was seven."
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How can one know the starting time of time clause that uses since as its conjunction and a durative verb as its predicate?
Maybe part of the issue with your struggle is that some of your examples are a bit off.
The house has been in bad repaired repair since he lived in it.
The tense of the word "repair" isn't ...
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since I studied at college
If the condition (studied/grandparents were alive) covers a period of time then it means 'at some time during that period'.
If the condition is at a fixed point (I went to bed/I graduated), then it ...
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"Since" vs "that"
The explanations you read sound correct. In each of your examples, the "span of time" is "several years," so you should use since. For the sentences to be correct, however, the ...
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Future Perfect Continuous with 'since' and 'from'
As Kate suggests, you are making this too hard. Most grammar is simple!
I will do my homework at 4 o'clock tomorrow.
Just simple future.
But, if you want to say that is the starting point... okay:
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"Since" vs "that"
It was several years since/that I had been travelling that road."
Since and that are not organically connected. The have no intrinsic connection.
Past tense, past meaning: It was several years ...
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The United Kingdom had its coldest April night since 2018
You use the past tense to write about past time. So if the author says
The UK had its coldest April night since 2018 on the night of the 5th of April.
You must use the past tense.
You can also ...
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be going back to work for the first time since
The sentence is correct. It means that the speaker has not worked at the hospital after Charles was born, but will do so tonight.
The word since here means after a past time:
American Heritage ...
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present perfect and past simple in the same sentence
Those are two independent clauses, so there is no difficulty in having two different time perspectives. I think if the clauses were reversed, as in
Only two weeks have passed since the accident, and/...
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Why was the past perfect used before and after ‘since’?
As mentioned by OP traditionally, "since" is frequently followed with the simple past tense to indicate an action that has been finished in the past
There's no strict guideline that states ...
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