Present Perfect with Since - Learn English Grammar with Examples

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Hello, everybody. This is Jack from tofluency.com. And in this video, I'm going to talk about
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the present perfect and since and, more specifically, I'm going to give you some examples of how
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we use this tense with since. So, let's have a look at how I used it in one of my other
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videos.
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"Today, I don't feel fantastic because I was up a lot during the night and I've been awake
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since 3 AM."
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In the video, I said, "Today, I don't feel fantastic because I was up a lot during the
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night and I've been awake since 3 AM." Now firstly, 'to be up' means to be awake or to
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be out of bed. So, on that night, I was up a lot. Now, when we use the present perfect
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and since, we're talking about something that started in the past and continues in the present.
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But with 'since' we're talking about a specific point in the past. In this case, this is 3
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AM. But let's look at some more examples now.
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I've been in America since 2011. So, we use since a lot with years. We haven't seen them
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since the wedding. So again, 'the wedding' is a point in the past and we haven't seen
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those people since then - we haven't seen them since the wedding. I've not had a good
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night's sleep since last Monday. So again, 'last Monday' is a point in the past - I've
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not had a good night's sleep since last Monday.
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What I recommend you do now is watch this video, and this looks at using the present
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perfect continuous with 'for'. So, it's going to give you some examples with 'for' instead
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of 'since'. So, thank you for watching this video, and I'll see you guys next time!
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