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Yankee wrote Hi KooyeenYes your do and can sentences are normal I consider the use of a continuous tense with the verb see to be mainly reserved for special meanings of see Lately he s been seeing apparitions unreal things visual disturbances I ve been seeing him for the last 5 months seeing...

Hi KooyeenYes your do and can sentences are normal I consider the use of a continuous tense with the verb see to be mainly reserved for special meanings of see Lately he s been seeing apparitions unreal things visual disturbances I ve been seeing him for the last 5 months seeing dating Tomorrow...

Hi Look forward to needs an ing verb regardless of it being a state verb or a verb of sensation We know that these verbs are not usually used in continuous tenses but it doesn t mean that they can t be used as gerunds The problem is that we generally think that gerund like in I like fishing and...

Hello I m a foreigner studying english and I have some question about the use of preposition I saw the name of one book if memory serve me right it s cambridge press s book and I don t understand its structure so I need some advice The name is In at the deep It s very short isn t it But its...

Hi Manicku 1 Other than the fact that one is the simple present tense and the other is present continuous tense the main difference to me is that I m looking forward to sounds a little friendlier and I look forward to sounds a little more formal 2 The phrasal verb look forward to is never...

A We are going to the club would you care to join us B I have an important project to present tomorrow this sentence set up an obligated tone but does not have the equal function as have to or must Have to me is simply a verb meaning to possess or own I have a boat I own a boat I have my boat to...

Thank you I tend to think the to be verb form to be something that represent the state of being and when verbs involve note some sort of activity I usually get them right but once in a while a thing or two play tricks on me and get me dithering between choices like the second set below Where is...

a phrasal verb in the perfect tense You got it CJ

To pick up is the verb and it is put in present perfect tense To pick up smell means to catch a whiff of something Incho

The sentence in question is the following After an hour though the only scents that you have picked up are the sweet sappy smells of freshly broken branches Is the verb have picked up or is it just have If it is have picked up I guess it would be a phrasal verb in the perfect tense