RoseSpring
Member
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2009
- Member Type
- Academic
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Egypt
- Current Location
- Egypt
Is this sentence correct?
You have become interested in reading since you were a child.
That's a pity. I hoped it was... :-(
So do you consider using it in the first sense correct?Context and intonation!
If a native speaker said it, I'd assume it meant, "When you were a child you weren't interested in reading. But since then, I see that you have developed an interest in reading."
If a non-native speaker said it, I would suspect that they might mean "You have been interested in reading ever since you a child".
Context and intonation!
If a native speaker said it, I'd assume it meant, "When you were a child you weren't interested in reading. But since then, I see that you have developed an interest in reading."
If a non-native speaker said it, I would suspect that they might mean "You have been interested in reading ever since you a child".
As Raymott did.I really meant to convey the second meaning but in a way that a native speaker can understand. How can I do so?
Yes.So do you consider using it in the first sense correct?
If a non-native speaker said it, I would suspect that they might mean "You have been interested in reading ever since you a child".
Is it understandable if remove the "ever" ?
I see that this sentence differs a little from the sentence in the OP.
1. You have been interested in reading ever since you a child.
This is meaningless without ‘were’.
2. You have been interested in reading since you a child.
This is meaningless without ‘were’.
3. You have been interested in reading ever since you were a child.
This is correct
4. You have been interested in reading since you were a child.
This is correct too.
The #4 differs from the sentence in the OP at the point that "been" stands for "become" !
What is the problem in the OP sentence ? At the verb "become" or the redundancy with "were" or the miss of "ever" ?
Thank you so much !
The absense of 'were' at the end of my post #4 is a typo. It happens.I thought that it may be incorrect if there is not "were" in the sentence, but that's all I've seen in your reply and no one has had an idea for that.
Yes, why can't I detect the difference when you explained so clearly ?
Thank you so much !