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Re: The Continuous tense

HiYour sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ...""the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Tanit 21 days ago Nouns Articles Verbs Past perfect Auxiliaries Present perfect Synonyms Clauses Gerunds Present continuous
Re: crawl

First, let's make this present continuous, to show it's happening now. With simple present, it sounds like the lizard does this all the time as a habit. The lizard is crawling at the ceiling. No, "at" doesn't workThe lizard is crawling on the ceiling. Okay. He is on the ceiling now.The lizard is...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Grammar Geek 1 yr 77 days ago Articles Simple present Present continuous
Re: Which words should I use?

Oh my gosh, this is driving me crazy...Is it possible to use continuous tenses in those cases? (the frist time, etc.)I was told that's not possible. In other words, if I'm driving a car for the first time, I can't say "This is the first time I'm driving a car"; if I'm going to the US for the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Kooyeen 1 yr 130 days ago Articles Tenses Present continuous

Re: Future continuous tense into passive voice?

Found this great article at the BBC Learning English site: ------------ Generally, we avoid using the continuous form of the passive with the future, present perfect, past perfectfuture perfect and , although present continuous ...

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Re: in reponse to

I wouldn't use the present continuous if the article is finished.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yankee 1 yr 250 days ago Articles Present continuous
School reunion

Hello,I am doing an exercise where I am to write sentences according to information from sb's diary, using either Present Continuous or be going to, e.g. Friday: school reunion.Should the sentence run: "On Friday I am going to attend a/the school reunion"?Which article should I use: "a" or...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Magda 1 yr 307 days ago Articles Present continuous
Re: tell me why.

Mayo, mustard, lettuce (as used here), salt and pepper are uncountable and that's why there's no article.To be strictly logical, "tomatoes" should refer to whole tomatoes, while we should say "tomato" to mean slices of tomato. The same applies to "red onions". Still, it doesn't sound bad in the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by J Lewis 2 yr 28 days ago Articles Grammar Plurals Present continuous Spelling
Re: taking notes, grammar question

Chariot wrote: He is the student taking notes. This sentence carrys two actions: be and take notes. I wonder if the meaning can be expressed in two sentences: He is the person. (1) He is taking notes. (2) The action of taking notes is in the present continuous tense. Can (2) be...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 2 yr 62 days ago Articles Grammar Difference between Tenses Clauses Present continuous
Re: future time

Will vs. be going to Q: What is the difference between will and going to as in “I’ll go to town” and “I’m going to go to town”? Batyabatya_l@macam.ac.il A: A quick answer to your question about the use of will vs. the use of be going to is that will expresses an action...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Teo 2 yr 347 days ago Articles Conversations Difference between Present continuous
Re: Hello

Hi Jazz, Thanks for saying I could correct your post on line. Re: your reply to Ali; 1. In English we always begin a new sentence with a capital letter, and we use a capital letter for people's names, and for names of places such as London, the Indian Ocean etc. So your greeting should...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by abbie1948 3 yr 193 days ago Articles Capital letters Simple present Verbs Conversations Tenses Nouns Present continuous Present tenses Punctuation Simple past Spelling Present simple Consonants

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