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Message board > a little bit confused Is it correct?
a little bit confused Is it correct?
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Mabdel
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a little bit confused Is it correct?
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Dear collegues. It �s me again ask for your help.
Ist it correct to say " Sha hasn �t been riding the bike since she was 7" or just she hasn �t ridden the bike....."
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8 Jun 2010
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pascy
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she hasn �t ridden a bike because she does not spend all her time riding. |
8 Jun 2010
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aliciapc
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Definitely she hasn �t ridden her bike ... |
8 Jun 2010
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magneto
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I agree with pascy
Edit: ...and aliciapc...we were writing at the same time
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8 Jun 2010
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Mabdel
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thank you all for your help . |
8 Jun 2010
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PMaryAnn
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If you say -
Sha hasn�t ridden her bike since she was 7.
this indicates that she doesn�t ride it anymore and that she stopped riding her bike when she was 7.
If this is your intention, then it sounds great to me.
If you say,
Sha hasn�t been riding her bike since she was 7.
Then it�s a strange sentence structure and is saying that she still rides her bike now, but that it wasn�t from the age of 7, but perhaps another age, like 10. If this is what you want to say , then it�s better to say,
�Sha has been riding her bike since she was 10.�
Sorry to �throw a spanner in the works�, but it depends on what you want to say.
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8 Jun 2010
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