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Paco2004 wrote Hello MaraI m not so sure what you are asking for But let me throw my two cents English progressive tense is a peculiar operator Prog dynamic Verb elongate the duration of the activity expressed by the dynamic verb or one time verb That is Prog dynamic verb gives a notion of...

Hello MaraI m not so sure what you are asking for But let me throw my two cents English progressive tense is a peculiar operator Prog dynamic Verb elongates the duration of the activity expressed by the dynamic verb or one time verb That is Prog dynamic verb gives a notion of continuousness or...

Hi Paco Here are some comments 1 x I knew her five years ago This is wrong Five years ago is a point time adverbial and so it can t go with a stative verb know It sounds OK to me My understanding is that you have lost contact with her thus you don t know her now you don t have a relationship now...

Hello guysI come to feel I have misunderstood the usage of know I thought previously know someone could be a dynamic verb to mean get acquainted with someone but now I understand know someone can be only a stative verb to mean be acquainted with someone or keep a relationship with someone So let...

Hello Mowgli Mowgli wrote I would prefer past simple Where were you because B isn t abroad or away any more they couldn t have this conversation otherwise To me I went to Malta for a 3 week holiday sounds natural as the answer I interpret A might ask Where have you been because A doesn t know...

My tries were as below but I too feel both forms may be OK 11 Don t bother to do the dishes negation google check don t bother to do 16 600 don t bother doing 24 90012 He hasn t even bothered to write negation google check hasn t bothered to write 528 hasn t bothered writing 6813 She walked out...

Neither of your natural sounding examples has an indefinite article followed by a time unit followed by before within an if clause It seems to me that one or more of these factors must be contributing to the difference we sense I think we have met before has no article and time unit so I think it...

Hello Guest Simply put dynamic verbs are those can occur with progressive aspect in continuous tenses while stative verbs cannot Dynamic verbs are for example go run watch He was running down the street Stative verbs forgive desire know etc Stative verbs are mainly verbs of inert perception and...

I think the reason is the perfect complete connection Sometimes the perfect does imply completion and sometimes it does not I have eaten dynamic verb and implies that you re finished eating I have lived in L A for 10 years stative verb and implies that I am still living here Whether it implicates...

http ccc commnet edu grammar progressive htm begin quote The progressive forms of a verb indicate that something is happening or was happening or will be happening When used with the past the progressive form shows the limited duration of an event While I was doing my homework my brother came...