>> "Since" and "For" in this sense, takes the perfect tense. e.g. "I have been programming since computers were cardboard boxes filled with pebbles". "I have been driving for 20 years".
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>I didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.
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>I read a lot of English - studied both high school and college by correspondence, among other things - but I know that my English is still not perfect.
Your welcome. I've always found your English to be as native, given the abbrev.s all use on the web. As far as I knew you were fluently polylinguistic :-) It's only that little tense thing that gave you away. When we learn French,, say, we have to learn say (in French) "I am here since a week" instead of "I have been here for a week", or "I have been here since last week".
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
