Write a paragraph of not more than 80-100 words describing what all you see on your way from your house to your school. Use the present, past and future perfect continuous tenses at least twice.
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could anyone please explain to me which grammatical rule (or rules) warrants the use of the past simple tense after 'since' in the sentence used in the explanatory section above:
I had been watching that programme every week since it started, but I missed the last episode.
Isn't the action of starting the programme earlier than my watching it. Why then the earlier action is expressed in the Past Simple and the action following it in the Past Perfect.
This issue has been bothering me for some time now, and I sieved through some of my old grammar books and came across some other instances of this tense use, here they are:
* We hardly recognized each other, because we hadn't met since we were young.(B.D. Graver. "Advanced English Practice. Oxford U. Press. 1990