Are the following expressions gramatically incorrect? I have been walking my dog these three years. He has been playing at the Wimbledon since he was 18 years old. A private English school's website in Japan says the above

Hi Snappy, Present perfect progressive can be used to highlight / or emphasize a point. John has been working on the landscaping of this house for 3 years and still hasn’t come close to getting it finished. It doesn’t mean that he continuously

Number one is more acceptable ,, Because of the " Present Perfect Progressive " is used at your expression ( Has Been dancing ) !! So, the preposition ( For ) is required !! I hope you get it ..

The "for" is optional - you can use both. Simple past tense is fine. Present perfect is not OK, because your sentence implies that you are no longer living in France. Present perfect is used to mean continuation up to the present. Past

Hi Fandorin: The subjunctive is slowing working its way out of our language, but we still use it. "i wish I went" just grates on my ears! In the subjunctive mood, a present wish about an event in the past (obviously, you cannot change

This is interesting, I wonder if there is a list of words that contain "duration" build in the meaning.  this might clear up the present perfect and present perfect progressive distinction.   for example: "I have been working here

Could any advisor please make a sentence for me using the present perfect progressive tense with a passive vioce? I remember reading in many traditional grammar books that it is incorrect to use these tenses in the passive voice. As they

Perfect progressive aspect is normally not expressed in the passive voice. Well, you would know what is normal in English, I suppose! FYI. Actual utterance of a native speaker: The economy is getting worse and worse. More and more employees have

Hey everyone, This is an interesting argument we got going on in here. I actually believe the proper sentence should be: "The store has been opened since 1995." Which implies "the store has been opened by someone since

There isn't a right way to say it. Both are correct. 1. I haven't driven my car for a month. (present perfect) 2. I haven't been driving my car for a month. (present perfect progressive) I think that most people, in this case, would