{"id":73422,"date":"2020-03-24T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73422"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:14:26","slug":"since-english-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/since-english-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Since | English Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In sentences with\u00a0since, we normally use\u00a0<b>present perfect<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>past perfect tenses<\/b>\u00a0in the main clause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I met him ten years ago and\u00a0<b>have admired\u00a0<\/b>him ever\u00a0<b>since<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>haven\u2019t met since\u00a0<\/b>her marriage.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0<b>have known\u00a0<\/b>each other\u00a0<b>since 1975.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>had been\u00a0<\/b>friends\u00a0<b>since<\/b>\u00a0university days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Present and past tenses are also occasionally used. This often happens in the structure\u00a0<b>It is\/was \u2026 since \u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0<b>is<\/b>\u00a0just a week\u00a0<b>since<\/b>\u00a0we arrived here.<\/li>\n<li>It<b>\u00a0was\u00a0<\/b>ages\u00a0<b>since\u00a0<\/b>our last game of tennis. (OR It had been ages since our last game of tennis.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tenses in since-clauses<\/h3>\n<p>Since can introduce its own clause. The tense in the<b>\u00a0since-clause\u00a0<\/b>can be perfect or past, depending on the meaning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have known her\u00a0<b>since we were\u00a0<\/b>at school together.<\/li>\n<li>I have known her\u00a0<b>since I have lived<\/b>\u00a0in this street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In sentences with\u00a0since, we normally use\u00a0present perfect\u00a0and\u00a0past perfect tenses\u00a0in the main clause. I met him ten years ago and\u00a0have admired\u00a0him ever\u00a0since. We\u00a0haven\u2019t met since\u00a0her marriage. They\u00a0have known\u00a0each other\u00a0since 1975. We\u00a0had been\u00a0friends\u00a0since\u00a0university days. Present and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1074,280,2246],"class_list":["post-73422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-english-grammar","tag-since","tag-using-since"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73423,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73422\/revisions\/73423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}