Thread: [Grammar] the present perfect
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Old 30-Jun-2008, 15:41
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Default Re: the present perfect

Hello.

I'm not a teacher, but would suggest the following:

The words since you have known him imply that you still know him and he's still doing things.

Once you use the words things he did (in the past), implying that he is no longer doing things, you would use knew intead of have known, but replace the word since by when:

...things he did when you knew him

Dave
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