Does 'recently' indicate time?

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WesternAmerican

#393347 Tue, 17 Jul 07 08:32 PM

May I use Present Perfect combined with the word 'recently' in the same phrase?
For e.g:
I have recently disocvered that my wife is cheating on me.

Thank you.

WesternAmerican

Joined on Wed, Jun 6 2007

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Present perfect

Anonymous

#393357 Tue, 17 Jul 07 08:43 PM

Hi WA,

Yes. In fact, "recently" is a perfect modifier in present perfect structure or unspecified time in my opinion.

I have recently met a girl whom I would consider a potential candisate for a long term relationship.

Anonymous

Whom, Present perfect

Ant_222

#393366 Tue, 17 Jul 07 09:42 PM

Yes, though it's not time as an absolute value, but, rather, an indication of the speaker's attitude towards how short period of time has passed since the event in question.

And, you may use Present Pefrect with it 'cause it indicates it happend not so long ago to be considered past time.

Ant_222

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Yoong Liat

#393655 Wed, 18 Jul 07 07:19 PM

WesternAmerican wrote:

May I use Present Perfect combined with the word 'recently' in the same phrase?
For e.g:
I have recently disocvered that my wife is cheating on me.

discovered ( W.A., typo, I believe.)

Yoong Liat

Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006

Singapore

Veteran Member (6,006)

Yoong Liat

Present perfect

WesternAmerican

#393673 Wed, 18 Jul 07 08:01 PM

Definitly a typo, Liat.
I've accidently swapped the c and the o.
I honestly appreciate your awarness. You are by far an essential instrument in my success as a learner of the English language, and I can't thank you enough for that.
Don't you think that my English has vastly improved since I signed up to the boards?

WesternAmerican

Grammar Geek

#393685 Wed, 18 Jul 07 08:17 PM

Yes indeed!

But your sense of color has not Smile [:)]

Grammar Geek

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Barbara, who answers in American English.

Yoong Liat

#393686 Wed, 18 Jul 07 08:20 PM

WesternAmerican wrote:

Definitly a typo, Liat.
I've accidently swapped the c and the o.
I honestly appreciate your awarness. You are by far an essential instrument in my success as a learner of the English language, and I can't thank you enough for that.
Don't you think that my English has vastly improved since I signed up to the boards?

I'm glad that you think your English has vastly improved. Yes, your English has improved and I believe it will improve further with the help of the other members as well.

I hope that you would appreciate my pointing some spelling errors (maybe typos).

Definitely (typo?) accidentally awareness (typo?)

Yoong Liat

Spelling

WesternAmerican

#393687 Wed, 18 Jul 07 08:22 PM

Another person that I owe a lot to has decided to show up.
I owe you too my gratitude, GG.
I'm drawing near to my 200th post, so I'll take advantage of this forum(or situation?) to thank every single member of this amazing board.
Edit: Thank you, I thought that awareness is spelled 'awarness', and definitely 'definitly'; Accidentally was indeed a mere typo.
Time to sit down with my family at the table, and eat dinner, so I'll see you all tomorrow.

WesternAmerican

Yoong Liat

#393710 Wed, 18 Jul 07 09:18 PM

Yoong Liat wrote:
WesternAmerican wrote:

Definitly a typo, Liat.
I've accidently swapped the c and the o.
I honestly appreciate your awarness.You are by far an essential instrument in my success as a learner of the English language, and I can't thank you enough for that.
Don't you think that my English has vastly improved since I signed up to the boards?

You should have used 'alertness', not 'awareness'.

Yoong Liat