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Apologies for effectively misquoting you there joysof :oops:

If you go back to my original set of comments, you'll see I didn't like that second sentence either (again, in my opinion, it's not...

It depends what you mean by 'important'.
If you say 'a white beautiful house' instead of 'a beautiful white house', you will be understood. But it will sound very unnatural.

According to me, that sentence is indeed wrong. Not slightly wrong, but absolutely wrong.
Joysof, apparently, doesn't agree.

As to register, I'm afraid you got that wrong Nuta. Register is best...

Well maybe I'm wrong, but I think if you look in any grammar book, it'll tell you that 'since' (temporal) should be followed by a phrase representing a definite point in the past. This can be either...

But in which sense do you take the word 'since'?

Well, just a few more ideas:

1. Re: your concern about being understood and understanding in the UK/USA.
My only suggestion is this: if you don't have access to native speakers, you can at least...

I think you are slightly confused about the rule ..

Like this:

for stative/'state' verbs, we don't usually use the continuous aspect.
So for verbs like:
know, like
love, understand

we...