the first time we have seen him in months
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Both of those sentences are grammatically correct.
The present perfect is the tense for "until now", but there's a significant time gap between "now" and "last week", so I would prefer "Last week was the first time we had seen him in months".
I am happy with "it has rained" in the second sentence because yesterday is very recent.
I am happy with "it has rained" in the second sentence because yesterday is very recent.
Both of those are wrong. The second one works if you move "yesterday" to the beginning:
Yesterday we saw him for the first time this summer.
Yesterday we saw him for the first time this summer.
I've scanned quora.com, usingenglish.com and wordreference.com on this issue, but I haven't noticed that somebody agreed with using Present Perfect in:
Last week was the first time we have seen him in months.
Yesterday was the first time it has rained this summer.
I inferred that most people would use Past Perfect. Some people could also use Past Simple. But all users I saw consider Present Perfect wrong here. Could you explain your choice please?
Thanks!
Can you provide some examples or explanations (from those websites) in which it was stated that the present perfect wasn't correct?
This is a number of links:
You can see it thanks to their different text color. So you can press each of them and find all you want on the pages that were already pre-selected by me.