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Hello, I have read in the grammar by Murphy that it is possible to use live and work in the present perfect continous as well as in the present perfect simple. (I have lived here since.../I have been living here since..) One of my friends say the same rule concerns the verb wait. I haven´t...

Hello, I suppose it´s all right if I say: 1) I haven´t driven a car since 2000. My grammar book says "present perfect continous is usual in negative sentences with all verbs" ------- What about present perfect continuos in this negative sentence: 2) I haven´t been driving since...

Hi! (A Practical English Grammar - Thomson, Marinet): An action which began in the past and is still continuing or has only just finished can, with certain verbs, be expressed by either the present perfect simple or the present perfect continuous. Verbs which can be used in this way include:...

"have" should be "had", in my opinion. You certainly can't have present perfect if you're going to mention a specific time in the past (the time when the generative grammar emerged). CJ

IAmWithName2 wrote: Hi all, Just when I thought I understood (almost) everything there is to know about the present perfect and the simple past I stumbled over a translation from Dutch I made --the problematic sentence is bold: ----- begin fragment ----- Seventeen-year-old...

Hi all, Just when I thought I understood (almost) everything there is to know about the present perfect and the simple past I stumbled over a translation from Dutch I made --the problematic sentence is bold: ----- begin fragment ----- Seventeen-year-old Claire lives on her own in a...

<Can you think of any language in this world with more simplified grammar?> Simplified? Would you care to try to explain the use of the present perfect? Or maybe how we use modal auxilaries? ;-)

I think the present, past, and present perfect tenses are the most frequently used. For a good introduction to verbs and tenses, see Mary Ansell's English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises at http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramtoc.html.

Thanks Goldmund, OH dear.. It is a long time since I did English grammar at school. My answers are all from memory, I am not looking anything up, (as is patently obvious). Perhaps I should They say you forget old stuff to make room for the new, obviously I have forgotten A LOT!! OK, so I...

Hello, I want to make sure I understand the meaning of these sentences well: I think both of them are grammaticly correct, aren´t they? 1) I´m reading an interesting book this month. 2) I´ve read an interesting book this month. ----------- If I say "I´m reading an interesting...