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Applicant: Hello. I'm here for that job for which you need a technician. My grammar is good. For example, I never end a sentence with a preposition. *smile*Employer: Oh, that don't matter. *smile* We gotta do some stuff with computers, websites, y'know, crap like that. *light a cigar*...

So, you suggest GG that it's best to write it in two sentences (like you did it) instead of in one. You wrote: I've always rented..... Was my version: I've been renting.. worse? I only wanted to stress that I'm still doing this, and using the present perfect would imply (if I...

That's correct but it can be used with any current temporal marker, i.e. this morning , today, this afternoon, this evening, this week, this month, this year, etc. From "A Grammar of the English Language", Volume I, 65B: A minute before 12 o'clock in the morning we may say...

this morning" (present perfect) is fine grammatically. The state caused by the event prevails to the present, i.e. "This morning Bob has eaten a full English breakfast so it's unlikely he's going to want to take lunch early".

If everyone was really careful to always use the grammatically correct tense then using the "wrong" one might be pretty confusing, but that's not the case. English is pretty relaxed when it comes to past events and we often use the past indefinite where the past imperfect, past...

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ

Hi everyone,I have a few grammar questions and I don't know how to answer them:Explain why the verb “To Be” is not a non-progressive verb?I know the simple present never talks about the present but what can be an exception to this rule?Why does the present tense not exist in English? What...

Complete any of the phrases above by adding any of these: frightened of snakes, interested in science, focused on his studies, tired of reading, fascinated by insects, bored with grammar.None of the resulting sentences has a passive construction.CJ

A partial grammar question letter : ' "Hello Grammar Teacher, I would like to thank you for your edition. However, I am not able to understand the logic of your edition. Could you..." Hello Grammar Teacher/Teachers, At the time of writing the letter, I still have not understood...

Sentence A. My friends have been living in the next house for five years. Sentence B. My friends have been living in the next house for five years so far. davkett #123154 Mon, 01 Aug 05 09:38 PM This might do it: 'I have been listening to the...