In Tenses^x, Perfect progressive^x

paco2004, "the daily jobs have been being shipped overseas, or merely just downsized out of existence." The daily jobs are being shipped. Right now, you can with 100% certainty talk to people who have worked, are working, or will work overseas. The daily jobs have been shipped...

Pemmican, "A letter has been being written by Tom" being passive of "Tom has been writing a letter" 1. The letter is being written, but there is more to write. 2. This much of the letter has been written, but there is more to write. A letter is in reference to any letter, whereas the is...

I found an article like below in Gutenberg.org.IF WE HAD A BOOMING ECONOMY IN THE 90'S, THEN WHY DID THE BANKRUPTCY RATE DOUBLE IN THE LAST 10 YEARS?Personal bankruptcies in the U.S. have doubled over the past 10 years, pretty consistently, at a yearly rate of increase of 7%. This was true even...

there's no passive for Perfect Progressive Tenses, is that true? I'm afraid I cannot agree. Those tenses are very rarely used, but I have heard them generated spontaneously by native speakers. Unless you listen to native speakers carefully for years and years and years, you may never hear...

Hello AnonI too am a learner and so I don't think I'm qualified to answer your questions. But if you don't mind, please allow me to put some tips about your questions." Tom eats a hamburger." I'm sorry but I have to say this sentence make no sense as an English sentence. We cannot use a simple...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

Hi I need urgent assistance and was wondering if you would mind providing same. Below are sentences demonstrating different tenses written in the active voice... the passive voice of most of these is pretty simple to extrapolate...or is it? Please help by providing the passive behind in each...

Hello Mara I know there is some difference in the degree of politeness between the simple and the progressive tenses about some verbs. Examples are between <I hope that ..> and <I'm hoping that …> or between "I wonder if …> and <I'm wondering if …>. And I also learned the...

"will have been" is the beginning of two different tenses. It depends on what follows. "will have been collecting" is (Active) Future Perfect Continuous, also called (Active) Future Perfect Progressive. "will have been collected" is Passive Futre Perfect, or Future Perfect Passive. "are...

Dear SpoonFedBaby, Your meaning is now clear to me. Speaker B has not concluded his study of English. The simple past is therefore incorrect. Here is my amendment. SpeakerA says, "The English on this website is full of mistakes." SpeakerB says, "I've only just found this website. I’ve not...