Situation 1: A: Have a cigarette please? B:Thanks.I haven't smoked (Here. I mean I am a non-smoker.) This is very unidiomatic. You will have to change it considerably. I haven't smoked will never get across the idea that you don't

Let the curly brackets { } mean "a form of". Thus, {be} means "a form of be"; that is, {be} means any of be, being, been, is, are, am, was, were. -ing represents the present participle form of a verb, e.g., being, having,

can Can you tell me the difference between the following two sentences ? 1. Being so late 2. Been so late They aren't sentences, as mentioned above. Some ways to use being 1. Put a form of be in front of it ( am being, is being, are being, was

Present Perfect VS Present Perfect Progressive I have lived here for 10 years. I have been living here for 10 years. Can anyone tell me the difference between Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive? And give me some example?

Hi, I was told that a present or past progressive tense like "is sleeping" or "was sleeping" denotes a temporary action or activity and the present perfect or past perfect progressive is used to indicate duration. I don't

Goodman: I didn’t not change the content of your post No, you did. You said that I had said "I stopped know it". I've never written so. I wrote "I stopped know ing it". If you say “I forgot I have a 10 o’clock

Anon, I didn’t change anything in your previous post in my response to your persistence on the perfect progressive usage of “knowing”. Your accusation had no basis. This awkward usage was what started all the fuzz on Google search discrepancy,

Google gives 213 instances of "I've been knowing it". Not much, but it counts. A search string like "been knowing" gives 71000 instances, which is absolutely considerable. People keep treating the verb "to know"

Hi, The original poster, beta_teacher, wrote: in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a walk . I had ttrouble keeping up with him because __ ( walk ) so fast . which tense shoul be used? Past progressive or Past Perfect Progressive I

Past progressive or Past Perfect Progressive Of the two, past progressive is the only one that seems idiomatic to my ear, but present is fine as well. In fact, present tense was the first that came to mind for me, i.e., he's a 'fast