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Kooyeen  #303260  Tue, 12 Dec 06 11:16 PM
Hi,
I know that lately is used with the present perfect, can it also be used with other verbs like the present simple or the present coninuous? Examples:

I'm so busy lately!
You seem so tired lately!
Why are you being so mean lately?
...

I thought it was only used with the persent perfect, but today, in an animated cartoon, I heard: "Chris, what's going on with you lately?"

Thanks.
  
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Clive  #303275  Wed, 13 Dec 06 12:23 AM

Hi,

I thought it was only used with the present perfect, but today, in an animated cartoon, I heard: "Chris, what's going on with you lately?"

These sound acceptable to me. Think of lately as 'in recent times including now'.

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Kooyeen  #303516  Wed, 13 Dec 06 06:46 PM
I really didn't know that. This should mean that the more I watch animated cartoons, the more I learn. Stick out tongue [:P]

Thank you.
  
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