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Latest post Fri, Jan 2 2004 12:00 PM by Dima. 1 replies.
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Dima  +  17862 Fri, 02 Jan 04 12:00 PM
I need to know more about tenses.because i always get mixed up between them.(perfect & progressive). Thanks.
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whl626  +  17926 Sat, 03 Jan 04 02:14 AM
Well, it is not difficult to understand that since perfect tense is a complete action while progressive is a continous action instead.

eg. I have studied for 3 hours.

I have been studying for 3 hours.

The latter shows that after studying for 3 hours you are still studyingSmile [:)] while the former is a complete action that you no longer study after that.
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