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One question about the present perfect : where could I find the list of verbs which can be either used in the simple form or in the continuous form in the same contexts?For example, He has been working here for 10 years and he has worked here for 10 years are both correct while He has been...

I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.(from Three men in a boat -- to say nothing of the dog! by J.K. Jerome) I've been thinking, without any doubt, that these noun phrases in navy blue above are subject complements.I've just found, though, that my...

Hi, I have read in the grammar by Murphy that it is possible to use live and work in the present perfect continous as well as in the present perfect simple. . . .generally speaking, I'd say it's possible to use any verb in these two tenses. Does Murphy have a whole list of verbs where you...

A very interesting question: the --ed ending IS one of the signs to tell us that a word is a verb. The tricky thing in English is that some words can belong to more than one "word class" so some verbs can be nouns (and vice versa.) From the examples you give, we can have "the work" (which...