It's so frustraiting! It makes me stop and think every single time when I try (or WHEN I'M TRYING ?) to utter a single sentece. Hi. Don't worry that much about it. He may have used it because of irritation or annoyance of the situation

Hi, Take a look at the following sentence: This use of language gives meaning to individual liives and to all kinds of social realities, but the use of language can take many different forms, because people in their daily lives are drawing on

Present Simple with always expresses the usual action. Of a person, for instance. Which is typical. I always eat at 12 o'clock. (I do it as my habit) Present Continuous with always expresses the action which is temporary and not accepted

But I am reading my boo k seems to carry far less future implication than emphasizing present activity? Maybe I will be reading my book before she arrives? That's exactly what I had on my mind, Anon! I don't always know what is on native

Can I use Present Continuous to express future in complex sentences? For example: I'm leaving after she arrives. I'm reading my book before she arrives.

Use 'is' with 'be' ( Is he your brother? Is he handsome? ) and with any present progressive verb ( Is he coming? ). Use 'does' with any simple present tense verb except 'be' ( Does he smoke? ).

Now it is clear to me :) Thank you, Proto

Yes, it is a common future form. It expresses a definite arrangement of some kind ('I'm moving to St. Louis next year'; 'I'm meeting him for dinner at 6'). It does not work for future events we cannot arrange, like: (X) 'It's raining tomorrow'.

Hi, Can present continuous be used to mean 'intend to do sth'? Yesterday I was watching Grey's anatomy and I encountered sth like this: "A: Is Meredith the only person who doesn't know the size of this thing? B: I'm

In the example that "CJ" gave, what is(what are) the grammar reason(reasons) that "Having" is used as a noun - ie, how can one discern that it is used as a noun in this sentence as opposed to a participle? Hi Philip: The verb