Anonymous  +  320256 Fri, 26 Jan 07 12:54 PM A very old lady teacher of English ask this question with the class: When I say "I am beautiful", which tense is it? One pupil anwers: It's the past of course. ---------- - Lisa Anonymous Tenses

	Clive  +  320340 Fri, 26 Jan 07 04:25 PM H, I think a better answer is 'It's the present continuous'. Old women can be beautiful, too, you know. Youth has just one type of beauty. Best wishes, Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,600 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo Present Continuous

	Orpheus  +  320881 Sun, 28 Jan 07 10:10 AM Well said, Clive. Orpheus Joined on Tue, Jun 17 2003 Jakarta, Indonesia Regular Member 587 'Truth is Subjectivity' - Kierkegaard

	Ville_maddengurl  +  321167 Sun, 28 Jan 07 09:48 PM Lisa ...its cool and Clive, its the first time i paid attention to your post...how careless i am! Ville_maddengurl Joined on Tue, Oct 18 2005 Adana Contributing Member 1,710 Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up...(Thomas A. Edison)

	Kooyeen  +  321725 Tue, 30 Jan 07 12:05 AM  Clive wrote: I think a better answer is 'It's the present continuous'. Old women can be beautiful, too, you know. Youth has just one type of beauty. Hey Clive, of course old women can be beautiful, but did you even see that teacher? I mean, if the student answered that way, she must have been very ugly! By the way, it's strange, but that joke works in Italian too. But in Italian there are a lot of jokes similar to that one that wouldn't work in English (tense, time and weather are the same). Jokes are interesting even from a linguistic point of view. Kooyeen Joined on Thu, Dec 22 2005 Italy Senior Member 4,969 Parental Advisory / Explicit Posts Jokes, Tenses, Present Continuous

	Clive  +  321729 Tue, 30 Jan 07 12:17 AM Hi, Hey Clive, of course old women can be beautiful, but did you even see that teacher? I mean, if the student answered that way, she must have been very ugly! And the pupil must have been extremely rude and unkind. There was no real teacher. There was no real pupil. It's just a joke. But it is built on the idea that old women can not be beautiful, so I decided to try to express another point of view. Best wishes, Clive Clive Jokes