Using present perfect
Hi everybody ). Doing some english excercises I saw one sentence where the authors supposed to use present perfect. I just want to ask native eglish speakers how they'd write it.

Sentences from exercise: The bad news is that I have split up with Sebastian. He has been travelling so much recently that we have not managed to see each other much and I have met someone else.

Thanks!

Question

Using present perfect
Hi everybody ). Doing some english excercises I saw one sentence where the authors supposed to use present perfect. I just want to ask native eglish speakers how they'd write it.

Sentences from exercise: The bad news is that I have split up with Sebastian. He has been travelling so much recently that we have not managed to see each other much and I have met someone else.

Thanks!

Answer

This paragraph is correct and natural, and could have been written by a native speaker. The writer is talking about the past without mentioning any specific time.  Her perspective is the present - she is explaining her current situation, by referring to events in the past which have a repercussion in the present.  Because of this emphasis, we don't need to know when these past events happened (which would require the past simple).

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I would write it exactly as it is here.