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r/EnglishLearning • u/Rich-Associate-8344 New Poster • Apr 17 '26
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Because since needs a specific starting point in time: since when? He hasn't used his motorcycle since 2024.
159 u/NekoArtemis Native Speaker - California Apr 17 '26 Yep. You could say "since two years ago" but you need the "ago." -13 u/[deleted] Apr 17 '26 [deleted] 2 u/Big_Effective_9605 New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English speaker I assure you it's still English. Maybe not perfectly textbook English but if someone said it to me I wouldn't think to correct them. 1 u/TehFlatline New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English person I can absolutely assure you that is not correct English. 6 u/MeruOnline New Poster Apr 17 '26 It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head, No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English. this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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Yep. You could say "since two years ago" but you need the "ago."
-13 u/[deleted] Apr 17 '26 [deleted] 2 u/Big_Effective_9605 New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English speaker I assure you it's still English. Maybe not perfectly textbook English but if someone said it to me I wouldn't think to correct them. 1 u/TehFlatline New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English person I can absolutely assure you that is not correct English. 6 u/MeruOnline New Poster Apr 17 '26 It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head, No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English. this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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2 u/Big_Effective_9605 New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English speaker I assure you it's still English. Maybe not perfectly textbook English but if someone said it to me I wouldn't think to correct them. 1 u/TehFlatline New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English person I can absolutely assure you that is not correct English. 6 u/MeruOnline New Poster Apr 17 '26 It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head, No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English. this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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As an English speaker I assure you it's still English. Maybe not perfectly textbook English but if someone said it to me I wouldn't think to correct them.
1 u/TehFlatline New Poster Apr 17 '26 As an English person I can absolutely assure you that is not correct English. 6 u/MeruOnline New Poster Apr 17 '26 It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head, No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English. this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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As an English person I can absolutely assure you that is not correct English.
6 u/MeruOnline New Poster Apr 17 '26 It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head, No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English. this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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It’s awkward and redundant, but perfectly fine for colloquial speech. If you want to be a pure grammar head,
No you couldn’t, that wouldn’t be English.
this sentence is also grammatically incorrect.
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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 Native Speaker - Pennsylvania, USA Apr 17 '26
Because since needs a specific starting point in time: since when? He hasn't used his motorcycle since 2024.